Saul Metzstein

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.

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 Year Title Notes 2024/25 Slow Horses Director for the fifth season (six episodes) 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