Miles Jay

Miles Jay, is a Canadian filmmaker who directed Super Bowl commercials and was nominated for a Grammy Award for his work on Leon Bridges' "River" music video, a Director's Guild of America Nomination for Best Commercial Director in 2016 and most recently he won an Emmy for Outstanding Commercial for his work on a Squarespace advertisement with John Malkovich.

Early life

Jay (born March 13, 1989) was born in Vancouver the son of television director Michael Robison and his mother, who was a set director.[1][2] 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.[1]

Education

He enrolled in Ryerson University's filmmaking program where he made a short film "BLINK" which won the TIFF Student Showcase. A year later he went on to direct 2012's Carly's Cafe, an interactive film intended to help viewers relate to a young autistic girl's experience, Carly Fleischmann.[3] 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.[2]

Jay went onto make a short film which won the Best Student Film at the Toronto International Film Festival and a music video that was short-listed for the Young Director award in Cannes.[1]

He went onto win numerous other awards, including Best Director & Best Film at the Air Canada Film Festival,[2] the Jury Award at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival for "The Statistical Analysis of Your Failing Relationship."[4] and a Director's Guild of America nomination for Best Commercial Directors in 2016.

Professional career

His commercial projects include spots for Budweiser, Major League Baseball and ESPN.[5] Two of his commercials for Squarespace, which starred John Malkovich, debuted in 2017 during Super Bowl LI.[6]

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.[7] In an interview with The Canadian Press he said, "I was much more interested in what people did when they left the riots."[7]

"River" was shot mostly with a Canadian crew, including cinematographer Chayse Irvin, who also worked on Beyonce's Grammy-nominated music film "Lemonade."[7]

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gollark: It won't automatically display the same thing on both. OpenOS picks one for you.
gollark: Do you have two GPUs in the computer?
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gollark: If the screens are on the same local wired cable network, and you have two GPUs, you can just use one computer for both.

References
  1. "Miles Jay - My First Shoot". My First Shoot. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  2. "B-Reel Signs Miles Jay | LBBOnline". Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  3. ""Carly's Cafe" Provides a Glimpse at What It's Like To Live With Autism". Co.Create. May 11, 2012. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  4. "Miles Jay". Smuggler. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  5. "Projects". Miles Jay. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  6. "John Malkovich - Squarespace". Miles Jay. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  7. Friend, David (February 9, 2017). "Grammy watch: Vancouver's Miles Jay on his best music video nomination". Calgary Herald/The Canadian Press. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
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