Jon Drever

Jon Giuseppe Drever is a British director, producer and screenwriter, mostly working in comedy genre. He is best known for his collaborations with comedian Brett Goldstein, which include the low-budget feature film SuperBob.

Career

Together with his business partner, Orlando [von Einsiedel], Drever co-founded the production company, Grain Media, which produced the Academy Award, Emmy Awards|Emmy] and BAFTA-nominated feature-length documentary Virunga, released on Netflix. 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.
His directorial feature debut, SuperBob, was released in 2015 and starred Brett Goldstein as a Peckham postman-turned-superhero and Catherine Tate as his boss. It received four-star reviews from The Times, Evening Standard, Empire and Den of Geek. Drever described the film as "a gentle, upbeat, positive and funny romantic story about a man who learns to fight for what's important".
Drever and Goldstein continued working together after SuperBob, making short films Bullet to the Heart, co-starring Aisling Bea, and Spectre of Shame, with Goldstein as James Bond attending a sex addiction meeting.

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer	Editor	Notes
2009	SuperBob					Original three-minute short film
2014	Virunga					Executive producer
2015	SuperBob					Creator
2016	Bullet to the Heart					Short film starring and co-written with Brett Goldstein and Aisling Bea
2017	Ross Noble: Off Road					Three-part series
2018	Spectre of Shame					Short film starring and written by Goldstein
2018	Password					Short film starring and written by Joe Wilkinson
2019	The Tool					Web pilot episode starring Javone Prince
2020	Trevor					Short film