Tim Grierson is a film and music critic whose writing has appeared in Screen International, Playboy, Paste, Deadspin, Rolling Stone, The Dissolve, L.A. Weekly, The Village Voice and Vulture. He is a contributing editor at Backstage and has served on the jury for the Los Angeles Film Festival. Tim has written four books, including "FilmCraft: Screenwriting" (a profile of the world’s greatest screenwriters), and is currently vice president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.