Saul Metzstein (born 30 December 1970) is a Scottish film director. He won the British Academy Scotland New Talent Award for best director in 2002 for Late Night Shopping.[1]
Metzstein is the son of Isi Metzstein, the renowned modernist architect, and Danielle Kahn. He was raised in Glasgow and studied architecture at Robinson College, Cambridge before taking minor production roles on Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave and Trainspotting and Gillies MacKinnon's Small Faces.[2] He came to prominence with the 2001 feature Late Night Shopping.[3] He subsequently directed documentaries on James Stewart and Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and an episode of Upstairs Downstairs, as well as five episodes of the seventh series of Doctor Who.[2]
Selected films/TV
edit| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Slow Horses | Director for the third season (six episodes) |
| 2019/20 | Brassic | Director |
| 2017/19 | Living the Dream | Director: "Adults Only","Gators for Cougars","True Love Waits","Steak Out","Visa Tambien","The British Method" |
| 2017 | The Snowman | Second Unit Director |
| 2015 | Suffragette | Second Unit Director |
| 2015 | You, Me and the Apocalypse | Director: "32 Days to Go","26 Days to Go","23 Days to Go","24 Hours to Go","The End of the World" |
| 2014 | Ripper Street | Director: "Live Free, Live True","The Peace of Edmund Reid" |
| 2014 | Black Sea | Second Unit Director |
| 2014 | Our Zoo | Director |
| 2013/14 | The Musketeers | Director: "Commodities","The Homecoming" |
| 2012/13 | Doctor Who | Director: "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship", "A Town Called Mercy", "The Snowmen", "The Crimson Horror", "The Name of the Doctor" |
| 2012 | Dredd | Second Unit Director |
| 2009 | Micro Men | starring Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman |
| 2005 | Guy X | starring Jason Biggs and Natascha McElhone |
| 2001 | Late Night Shopping | |
| 1996 | Trainspotting | Location Assistant |
References
edit- ^ "Accidental stars pick up top talent awards". The Herald. Glasgow, Scotland. 25 November 2002. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ a b Cook, Benjamin (February 2013). "Directing Dinosaurs, Cowboys and Snowmen". Doctor Who Magazine #456. Tunbridge Wells, UK: Panini. pp. 20–24.
- ^ "The X-Factor". Future Movies. November 2001.
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