Saul Metzstein (born 30 December 1970) is a Scottish

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

. 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

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architect, and Danielle Kahn. He was raised in Glasgow and studied

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Robinson College, Cambridge Robinson College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1977, it is one of the newest Oxbridge colleges and is unique in having been intended, from its inception, for both undergraduate and graduate students of b ...

before taking minor production roles on

Danny Boyle Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director and producer. He is known for his work on films including '' Shallow Grave'', '' Trainspotting'' and its sequel '' T2 Trainspotting'', '' The Beach'', ''28 Days Later'', '' S ...

's '' Shallow Grave'' and ''

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'' and

Gillies MacKinnon Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director, writer and painter. He attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied mural painting. Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time ...

's ''

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''. He came to prominence with the

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feature '' Late Night Shopping''. He subsequently directed documentaries on James Stewart and Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and an episode of ''

Upstairs Downstairs Upstairs Downstairs may refer to: Television * ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' (1971 TV series), a British TV series broadcast on ITV from 1971 to 1975 * ''Upstairs Downstairs'' (2010 TV series), a sequel of the ITV series broadcast on the BBC from 201 ...

'', as well as five episodes of the seventh series of '' Doctor Who''.

Selected films/TV

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* Scottish film directors 1970 births Alumni of Robinson College, Cambridge Living people People educated at Hillhead High School Scottish Jews British Jews {{Scotland-bio-stub