Saul Metzstein


Saul Metzstein is a Scottish film director. He won the British Academy Scotland New Talent Award for best director in 2002 for Late Night Shopping.
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. He came to prominence with the 2001 feature Late Night Shopping. 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.

Selected films/TV

YearTitleNotes
2019/20BrassicDirector
2017/19Living the DreamDirector: "Adults Only","Gators for Cougars","True Love Waits","Steak Out","Visa Tambien","The British Method"
2017The SnowmanSecond Unit Director
2015SuffragetteSecond Unit Director
2015You, Me and the ApocalypseDirector: "32 Days to Go","26 Days to Go","23 Days to Go","24 Hours to Go","The End of the World"
2014Ripper StreetDirector: "Live Free, Live True","The Peace of Edmund Reid"
2014Black SeaSecond Unit Director
2014Our ZooDirector
2013/14The MusketeersDirector: "Commodities","The Homecoming"
2012/13Doctor WhoDirector: "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship", "A Town Called Mercy", "The Snowmen", "The Crimson Horror", "The Name of the Doctor"
2012DreddSecond Unit Director
2009Micro Menstarring Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman
2005Guy Xstarring Jason Biggs and Natascha McElhone
2001Late Night Shopping
1996TrainspottingLocation Assistant