Miles Jay

Miles Jay is a Canadian filmmaker whose work includes Super Bowl commercials and music videos. He won an Emmy Award in 2018 for his work on a Squarespace advertisement featuring actor John Malkovich and was nominated for a Grammy Award for his work on Leon Bridges' "River" music video. He was nominated for Best Commercial Director at the Directors Guild of America Awards in 2016 and 2018.

Early life He is the son of television director Michael Robison and his mother, who was a set director. His early aspirations were to become an athlete but while still in high school he began to seriously pursue filmmaking as a career by enrolling in a TV production class and spending his downtime reading Final Cut Pro manuals. The film was later used by the President of Poland in a presentation to the United Nations to support the Convention of Rights of People with Disabilities. and a Directors Guild of America nomination for Best Commercial Directors in 2016.

Professional career

His commercial projects include spots for Airbnb, Apple, Bose, Budweiser, ESPN, Facebook, Google, Heineken, Major League Baseball, and Samsung.

In 2015, he signed with production company Smuggler for international representation.

A seven-minute music video for Leon Bridges' "River" was nominated for the best music video Grammy Award, though it lost to Beyonce's "Formation". The music video is mostly a fictional interpretation of scenes Jay witnessed while visiting Baltimore in the aftermath of protests over the death of Freddie Gray. In an interview with The Canadian Press he said, "I was much more interested in what people did when they left the riots." 2018 Directors Guild of America Nominee for Bose and Squarespace 2018 Grand Prix for Entertainment at Cannes Lions for Jay-Z's 'Smile' music video