Jon Drever
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29 June 1979
- Director
- producer
- screenwriter
Jon Drever | |
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 Drever in June 2015 | |
| Born | Jon Giuseppe Drever 29 June 1979 |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
Jon Giuseppe Drever (born 29 June 1979)[1] is a British director, producer and screenwriter, mostly working in comedy genre.[2] He is best known for his collaborations with comedian Brett Goldstein, which include the low-budget feature film SuperBob (2015).
Together with his business partner, Orlando von Einsiedel,[3] Drever co-founded the production company, Grain Media, which produced the Academy Award, Emmy and BAFTA-nominated feature-length documentary Virunga (2014), released on Netflix.[4][5] He sold his half of the company in 2018 to concentrate on making comedy, working with comedy stars like Ross Noble, Aisling Bea, Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, Javone Prince and more.[2]
His directorial feature debut, SuperBob, was released in 2015 and starred Brett Goldstein (with whom he went to the same school in Sutton)[6] as a Peckham postman-turned-superhero and Catherine Tate as his boss.[7][8][9] It received four-star reviews from The Times, Evening Standard, Empire[10] and Den of Geek.[11] Drever described the film as "a gentle, upbeat, positive and funny romantic story about a man who learns to fight for what's important".[12]
Drever and Goldstein continued working together after SuperBob, making short films Bullet to the Heart (2016), co-starring Aisling Bea, and Spectre of Shame (2018), with Goldstein as James Bond attending a sex addiction meeting.[13][14]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Writer | Editor | Notes |
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| 2009 | SuperBob | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Original three-minute short film |
| 2014 | Virunga | No | Yes | No | No | Executive producer |
| 2015 | SuperBob | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Creator |
| 2016 | Bullet to the Heart | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short film starring and co-written with Brett Goldstein and Aisling Bea |
| 2017 | Ross Noble: Off Road | Yes | No | No | No | Three-part series |
| 2018 | Spectre of Shame | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Short film starring and written by Goldstein |
| Password | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Short film starring and written by Joe Wilkinson | |
| 2019 | The Tool | Yes | No | No | No | Web pilot episode starring Javone Prince |
| 2020 | Trevor | Yes | No | No | No | Short film |