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.
Son of Rambow Son of Rambow is a 2007 British-American-French-German comedy film written and directed by Garth Jennings. The film premiered on 22 January 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival. The film was also shown at the 51st BFI London Film Festival. "Son of Rambow" was released in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2008 and opened in limited release in the United States on 2 May 2008. Set over a summer during the dawn of Thatcher's Britain, the film is a coming of age story about two schoolboys and their attempts to make an amateur film inspired by "First Blood".