Miles Jay is a Canadian filmmaker whose work includes Super Bowl commercials and music videos. He won an

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in 2018 for his work on a

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and was nominated for a

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for his work on

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' "River" music video. He was nominated for Best Commercial Director at the

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s in 2016 and 2018.

Early life

He is the son of television director

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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.

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

Professional career

His commercial projects include spots for

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, and

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. Two of his commercials for

, which starred John Malkovich, debuted in 2017 during

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. In 2015, he signed with production company Smuggler for international representation. A seven-minute music video for

' "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

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. In an interview with The Canadian Press he said, "I was much more interested in what people did when they left the riots." "River" was shot mostly with a Canadian crew, including cinematographer Chayse Irvin, who also worked on Beyonce's Grammy-nominated music film "

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Awards

* 2016

Nominee for

"River" video * 2016 Directors Guild of America Nominee for

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* 2017 Primetime

for Outstanding Commercial for Squarespace * 2017

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Grand Jury Prize for Leon Bridges "River" video * 2018 Directors Guild of America Nominee for Bose and Squarespace * 2018 Association of Independent Commercial Producers music video award winner for

"River" video * 2018 Grand Prix for Entertainment at Cannes Lions for

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's 'Smile' music video

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jay, Miles Living people Toronto Metropolitan University alumni Canadian music video directors Year of birth missing (living people)