John Matysiak

Movies

Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World
Director of Photography
Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever.
Acidman
Director of Photography
After a decade apart, Maggie tracks down her elusive father. His fixation with UFOs has intensified over the years, which frustrates her attempts to communicate some big news.
Meet Cute
Director of Photography
A wildly inventive deconstruction of the romantic comedy built around the question: What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones’ past, heal their traumas, fix their problems, and change them into the perfect partner?
Old Henry
Director of Photography
A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.
Isolation
Cinematography
Inspired by the true events of a couple vacationing on a remote island in the Bahamas who are hunted by a group of modern-day pirates, after their identities and their lives.
Eidolon
Director of Photography
Running out of time, a young man works obsessively to keep his dying sister alive. Unable to remember anything before the accident that put her in this position, his sister trusts him implicitly. However, the reality of her situation and his method of giving her life is not what she expects.
Mantervention
Director of Photography
Spencer turns to his best friend who's planned an unorthodox "mantervention" filled with debauchery to convert him from hopeless romantic to forever player, and in the process they discover that being in love is not so bad after all.
#Stuck
Cinematography
A hot one-night stand turns into an awkward morning after when Guy and Holly get stuck in a dead-stopped traffic jam.
Holly's Holiday
Director of Photography
A professional in the advertising business, Holly dreams of finding Mr. Right, & getting the "perfect" romance. When she meets someone who ~looks the part, she falls hard & fast. But soon she is reminded that appearances can be deceiving, & true love grows in more unexpected places.
Model Minority
Director of Photography
Kayla, an underprivileged Japanese American 16 year old, endangers her promising future as an aspiring artist when she becomes involved with a drug dealer.
Playdate
Director of Photography
A new family moves into the house next door to the Valentine family. While they become fast friends, Emilie Valentine starts to notice bruises and odd behavior from the two sons in the new family. Are they victims of child abuse? Or are there twists and turns to finding out the real reason?
Holiday Engagement
Director of Photography
Thirty-something Hillary Burns has spent her life trying to get the approval of her parents, most specifically her judgmental mother, Meredith Burns, thus far without success. Part of that approval for Hillary is to marry the right man. That's why Hillary is so happy that she is engaged to successful lawyer Jason King, who she will bring home to meet the family for the first time at their Thanksgiving get-together weekend in a week's time. However, Hillary's life starts to fall apart when simultaneously she loses her part-time newspaper writing job when the newspaper itself folds, and Jason dumps her as he tries to focus on his career which is seemingly more important to him than Hillary. On the advice of her best friend Sophie, Hillary - who feels she can't go home without Jason, especially as her two sisters' lives seem to meet their mother's approval - decides...
Borderline Murder
Director of Photography
A young law student, Abby Porter, suspects that her sister, a stripper, may have been murdered. She discovers an illegal network of cross border plastic surgery centers providing crude, but inexpensive cosmetic surgery to young women in the United States.
Final Sale
Director of Photography
A woman undergoes an illegal organ transplant only to discover that the young girl who donated the kidney died during the operation. Determined to stop this heinous activity, but torn by the moral dilemma of being saved by it, she fights against her reluctant husband, an LAPD Detective, to pull down the ring of criminals behind it.
In the Dark
Gaffer
Armed with a camcorder, a circle of friends parties at an abandoned insane asylum where, five years earlier, they caused a young patient's death. But their fun turns to fright when the consequences of their heinous crime catch up with them. Will they get out alive, or are they doomed? And what will the tapes reveal?
The Halfway House
Best Boy Grip
Young girls are disappearing in and around the Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls.