Metz worked as a documentary researcher and moved to
South Africa. There he worked on the television drama
Soul City before making his debut documentary short
Township Boys in 2006. His feature documentaries include
Love on Delivery and
Ticket to Paradise. These two films are a two-part series depicting women in a situation of mail-ordered brides from Vietnam and Thailand to Denmark. In 2010, Pedersen directed
Armadillo. In 2015, Pedersen directed the third episode, "
Maybe Tomorrow", of the second season of
True Detective, starring
Colin Farrell,
Rachel McAdams, and
Vince Vaughn. Metz directed the 2017 film
Borg vs McEnroe. After this Metz returned to the documentaries by making
Heartbound: A Different Kind of Love Story (2018) about more than 900 Thai women married to men in a small region of Denmark. He directed three episodes of
ZeroZeroZero, which premiered on
Sky Atlantic,
Italy, in February 2020. He was the director of the Amazon production
All the Old Knives, released in 2022, an American spy thriller film written by
Olen Steinhauer. In 2025, he directed three critically acclaimed episodes of the second season of
Andor. Metz is the director of the upcoming
crime drama film Unabomber, based on the life of domestic terrorist
Ted Kaczynski, starring
Russell Crowe,
Jacob Tremblay,
Shailene Woodley and
Annabelle Wallis. ==Awards==