A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Matthew Poynter
Matthew Poynter ACO SOC is a British camera and Steadicam operator whose career spans more than thirty years in the camera department, working in both feature films and high-end television drama. He began his professional trajectory as a documentary camera assistant before transitioning to scripted drama, gradually advancing from trainee to camera operator. Over the years, Poynter has developed a strong reputation for his proficiency with wheels, dollies, cranes, handheld camera work, and Steadicam systems—he is a trained Steadicam operator under the guidance of Paul Edwards ACO. He is a member of the Association of Camera Operators (ACO), the Society of Operating Cameramen (SOC), and the Guild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT). He shared a nomination for the 2020 GBCT Operators Award in the Television Drama category for his work on that series alongside James Layton. In addition to his on-set work, Poynter has mentored and taught at institutions such as the National Film and Television School (NFTS) and worked with initiatives such as Women Behind the Camera to help foster new talent.
"A" Camera Operator:
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2024 Damsel
"B" Camera Operator:
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2021 Off the Rails
2021 The Duke
2022 Save the Cinema
2024 Damsel
2025 Words of War
2026 Avengers: Doomsday
Additional Camera:
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2021 Off the Rails
2021 The Duke
2022 Save the Cinema
2024 Damsel
2025 Snow White
2025 Words of War
2026 Avengers: Doomsday
???? Untitled Jack Ryan Film
Clapper Loader:
1999 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2021 Off the Rails
2021 The Duke
2022 Save the Cinema
2024 Damsel
2025 Snow White
2025 Words of War
2026 Avengers: Doomsday
???? Untitled Jack Ryan Film
Second Unit Director of Photography:
1999 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2020 Made in Italy
2021 Off the Rails
2021 The Duke
2022 Save the Cinema
2024 Damsel
2025 Snow White
2025 Words of War
2026 Avengers: Doomsday
???? Untitled Jack Ryan Film
Steadicam Operator:
1999 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2020 Made in Italy
2021 Off the Rails
2021 The Duke
2022 Save the Cinema
2023 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2024 Damsel
2025 Snow White
2025 Words of War
2026 Avengers: Doomsday
???? Untitled Jack Ryan Film
"A" Camera Operator:
2015 Indian Summers
2015 Jekyll and Hyde
2017 Living the Dream
2018 A Discovery of Witches
2018 Deep State
2019 His Dark Materials
2019 The Witcher
2021 Shadow and Bone
2022 The Sandman
2022 Willow
2024 My Lady Jane
"B" Camera Operator:
2011 DCI Banks
2013 Da Vinci's Demons
2015 Galavant
2015 Indian Summers
2015 Jekyll and Hyde
2017 Living the Dream
2017 The White Princess
2017 Will
2018 A Discovery of Witches
2018 Deep State
2019 Carnival Row
2019 His Dark Materials
2019 The Witcher
2021 Shadow and Bone
2022 The Sandman
2022 Willow
2023 Citadel
2024 My Lady Jane
"C" Camera Operator:
2011 DCI Banks
2013 Da Vinci's Demons
2015 Fortitude
2015 Galavant
2015 Indian Summers
2015 Jekyll and Hyde
2017 Living the Dream
2017 The White Princess
2017 Will
2018 A Discovery of Witches
2018 Deep State
2019 Carnival Row
2019 His Dark Materials
2019 The Witcher
2021 Shadow and Bone
2022 The Sandman
2022 Willow
2023 Citadel
2024 My Lady Jane
Additional Camera:
2005 Doctor Who
2011 DCI Banks
2013 Da Vinci's Demons
2015 Fortitude
2015 Galavant
2015 Indian Summers
2015 Jekyll and Hyde
2017 Living the Dream
2017 The White Princess
2017 Will
2018 A Discovery of Witches
2018 Deep State
2019 Carnival Row
2019 His Dark Materials
2019 The Witcher
2021 Shadow and Bone
2022 The Sandman
2022 Willow
2023 Citadel
2024 My Lady Jane
Camera Operator:
2005 Doctor Who
2011 DCI Banks
2013 Da Vinci's Demons
2015 Fortitude
2015 Galavant
2015 Indian Summers
2015 Jekyll and Hyde
2016 Agatha Raisin
2017 Living the Dream
2017 The White Princess
2017 Will
2018 A Discovery of Witches
2018 Deep State
2019 Carnival Row
2019 His Dark Materials
2019 The Witcher
2021 Shadow and Bone
2022 The Sandman
2022 Willow
2023 Citadel
2024 My Lady Jane
Steadicam Operator:
2005 Doctor Who
2011 DCI Banks
2013 Da Vinci's Demons
2015 Fortitude
2015 Galavant
2015 Indian Summers
2015 Jekyll and Hyde
2016 Agatha Raisin
2017 Living the Dream
2017 The White Princess
2017 Will
2018 A Discovery of Witches
2018 Deep State
2019 Carnival Row
2019 His Dark Materials
2019 The Witcher
2021 Shadow and Bone
2022 The Sandman
2022 Willow
2023 Citadel
2024 My Lady Jane
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.