Thursday, 15 November 2012

Jamie Thraves

Jamie Thraves was born in Romford, Essex 1969. He was originally born with the name of James Thraves.
His career first started at Hull university where he write and directed short films which went on to mwin awards for best fim by new director. In 1983 he joined the royal college of art, it was here where he made his award winnig "Hackney downs". Once he had graduated from the college he joined the production company "Oil factory". This was the place where he made the famous video "Just" by Radiohead. From this Jmie started getting a lot of attention. He made yet another award winning short film called " I just want to kiss you" starring Martin Freeman.

His first feature film was called "The low down" in 2000 with film4. After this his career really took of and created music video for bands like4 blur and coldplay. His video for the scientist is another very famous one, this one three awards includong best direction and best breakthough video at the VMA'S in 2003. He has recently produced a video for dizzie rascal in "Dirtie disco".

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