After winning a BAFTA for his short film "Say Goodbye" and an Academy award for the featurette, "This Boy's Story", John made his feature debut on Warner Bros’, "War of the Buttons", alongside Producer David Puttnam. He promptly followed with his first American production for Dreamworks, the commercially successful & BAFTA award winning family film "Paulie". Returning to the UK, he made the critically acclaimed BBC drama "Station Jim". "Day of the Flowers" is John's latest feature film.