Jamie Thraves is a British film writer and director.
Thraves began making early short experimental films in 1989 at Hull University, having previously studied illustration. His graduation film Scratch (1991) and The Take-Out (1993) (made under the BFI New Directors scheme) both went on to win numerous awards at short film festivals worldwide.
He joined the Royal College Of Art in 1993 where he made another award winning film, The Hackney Downs (1994). After leaving the RCA he joined Oil Factory, a music video company, making his breakthrough video for Radiohead for their song 'Just' where a man lies on the pavement and is confronted by an angry crowd, this video got Thraves a lot of attention for its strong narrative structure and use of subtitles, what the man says to make the crowd lie down at the end of the video still manages to cause great discussion amongst fans some fifteen years later.
Thraves has continued to make music videos for such artists as The Verve, Blur and Coldplay. His video for Coldplay's 'The Scientist' won three Moon Men at the 2003 VMA's in the US, including Best Direction and Breakthrough Video.
Coldplay's 'The Scientist'
Thraves' most recent video is 'Song for Lisa' by Japanese Popstars. The video took two days to shoot and cost £20,000. Thraves has said that he used music videos as a stepping stone into the film business.
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