John Mathieson, BSC is one of a group of film makers who emerged from the music video industry whose peers include the director of  a 2007 British romantic war drama that chronicles a crime and its consequences over the course of how many decades?
John Mathieson (cinematographer) John Mathieson, BSC (born 3 May 1961) is an English cinematographer. He is one of a group of film makers who emerged from the music video industry of the late 1980s and 1990s. His peers include cinematographers Tim Maurice Jones ("Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels") and Seamus McGarvey BSC ("Atonement") and directors Michel Gondry and David Fincher. The inventiveness and visual style of music videos did much to shape the evolution of contemporary feature films.
Amazing Grace (2006 film) Amazing Grace is a 2006 British-American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted, about the campaign against slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament. The title is a reference to the hymn "Amazing Grace". The film also recounts the experiences of John Newton as a crewman on a slave ship and subsequent religious conversion, which inspired his writing of the poem later used in the hymn. Newton is portrayed as a major influence on Wilberforce and the abolition movement.