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Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
While studying English Literature at Edinburgh University, Trevor started writing film reviews, and was the founding film editor at ‘The List’, the Glasgow and Edinburgh Listings magazine. Since then he has contributed reviews and features to numerous publications, including ‘Sight & Sound’ and ‘The Independent on Sunday’, has been the weekly film critic of ‘The Scotsman’ newspaper, and these days writes regularly for ‘Time Out London’, 'The Times' and the Irish Film Institute.
Over the years he has also interviewed many of the world’s great film-makers on print and on stage, including Michael Powell, Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, Quentin Tarantino, Wong-Kar Wai, Terence Davies, Neil Jordan, Atom Egoyan, Terry Gilliam and Errol Morris.
Having carped too many times about the quality of British screenwriting, he has also been pursuing activities in the development sector, training at The Script Factory through both script reading courses and the Script Development Diploma taught in partnership with the National Film and Television School. He has since worked as a script editor for Grand Pictures in Dublin, and an industry reader for the UK Film Council and Skillset as well as Element Pictures, Universal Pictures International, Little Wing and The Script Factory itself, and hopes to pursue this avenue in the future.
He presented Scottish Television’s Festival Cinema programme, has taught A-Level Film Studies, and once gave Carlos Reygadas a John Tavener CD whose music he ended up using in his next film. Having studied (and tasted) at the Wine & Spirit Education Trust, he also knows his way around a wine list, but that’s another story…
New from summer 2008, Trevor writes a regular review column here at The Script Factory, looking at films from a script-centred perspective.
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