Biography
Mike Day is a Peabody Award winning and Emmy nominated director, producer and cinematographer from Scotland. Originally trained as a lawyer, Mike made the transition into film in 2009 when he headed off into the Scottish Outer Hebrides on a boat with a camera and met the Guga Hunters of Ness. The resulting documentary was commissioned by the BBC and screened internationally. Supported by Sundance Institute, San Francisco Film Society, The Filmmaker Fund, Creative Europe, Creative Scotland, Wellcome Trust, Influence Film and the Danish Film Institute, Mike then made the feature documentary, The Islands and the Whales in the Faroe Islands. Released in 2016, the film has gone on to win awards including a 2018 Peabody Award for Documentary, a BAFTA and Emmy nomination, theatrical release, and broadcast on POV on PBS, ARTE, ZDF, SVT, DR2, NRK and others in 2017.
