Saul Metzstein

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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]

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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

YearTitleNotes
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

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References

  1. "Accidental stars pick up top talent awards". The Herald . Glasgow, Scotland. 25 November 2002. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  2. 1 2 Cook, Benjamin (February 2013). "Directing Dinosaurs, Cowboys and Snowmen". Doctor Who Magazine #456. Tunbridge Wells, UK: Panini. pp. 20–24.
  3. "The X-Factor". Future Movies. November 2001.