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Ninian Doff

Ninian Doff is a Scottish director working across commercials, music videos, and features, known for meticulous craft, darkly comedic sensibility, and treating absurd concepts with cinematic seriousness.

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Production company & representation
Spy Films
Production company · CA, Global · verified Jul 2026
RESET
Production company · US · verified Jul 2026
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Recent press & creds
SXSW Audience Award Midnighters (Get Duked!)
SXSW · 2019 · award
Just Film Grand Prix (Get Duked!)
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2019 · award
The Siren Award for Best Feature Film (Get Duked!)
Lund Fantastik Film Festival · 2019 · award
Selected clients
Sainsbury'sAppleVeg PowerIKEAThree MobileMarsTemptationsCapital One

Bio & background

Ninian Doff is a Scottish director working across commercials, music videos, and features, known for meticulous craft, darkly comedic sensibility, and treating absurd concepts with cinematic seriousness. His breakthrough Fulton Lights music video—made for £20 with motion-tracked arms glued onto crows—earned a UKMVA nomination and led to representation at Pulse Films. His 60-million-view Miike Snow "Genghis Khan" reimagined James Bond as a gay love story shot on 35mm, impacting LGBTQ+ youth worldwide. For Chemical Brothers' "We've Got to Try," he trained a rescue dog to actually drive an F1 car and spaceship. In commercials, Doff injects genre filmmaking into brand work: Veg Power's broccoli invasion shot like a thriller won Shots' Television Commercial of the Year and nine British Arrow nominations; Sainsbury's "Nicholas The Sweep" mixed Dickens with Batman Begins; Mars Temptations featured cats actually playing instruments. His Apple Watch spots turned bedtime routines into Nike-style epics using in-camera rigs and body doubles. His debut feature Get Duked! won SXSW's Audience Award and a BIFA nomination. A D&AD Pencil winner and Grammy nominee, Doff directs for RESET (US) and ROGUE Films (UK), bringing technical innovation, exhaustive detail, and sincere irreverence to every frame.

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Awards
  • SXSW Audience Award Midnighters (Get Duked!)
    SXSW · 2019
  • Just Film Grand Prix (Get Duked!)
    Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2019
  • The Siren Award for Best Feature Film (Get Duked!)
    Lund Fantastik Film Festival · 2019
  • Shots Award: Television Commercial of the Year (Veg Power)
    Shots · 2019
  • D&AD Director Pencil
D&AD · 2016
  • Campaign UK's Top 10 Directors
    Campaign UK · 2019
  • Selected for New Directors' Showcase
    Saatchi & Saatchi at Cannes · 2012
  • British Arrow
    British Arrows · 2025
  • Silver British Arrow
    British Arrows · 2021
  • 9 British Arrow Nominations (Sainsbury's & Veg Power)
    British Arrows · 2020
  • Grammy Nomination for Best Music Video (Chemical Brothers)
    Recording Academy · 2020
  • BIFA Best Debut Director Nomination (Get Duked!)
    British Independent Film Awards · 2019
  • UKMVA Best Director
    UK Music Video Awards · 2016
  • UKMVA Best Urban Video
    UK Music Video Awards · 2016
  • UKMVA Best Pop Video
    UK Music Video Awards · 2016
  • Gold in FilmCraft
    Europebest · 2015
  • UKMVA Best Choreography
    UK Music Video Awards · 2014
  • UKMVA Best Indie Video
    UK Music Video Awards · 2013
  • Press
    • Into the Library with Ninian Doff
      LBB · 2024
    • Director Ninian Doff: 'I love going in way too deep'
      Campaign UK · 2020