(updated 2024 bio) 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, 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. His latest film, Cowboy Poets is due for release in 2024. (older bio) Mike Day is a Peabody award winning and Emmy nominated Scottish director and cinematographer. Formerly a lawyer he founded Intrepid Cinema in 2009 before heading out into the North Atlantic on a boat to make his first documentary, The Guga Hunters of Ness, later commissioned by the BBC. While at sea filming Mike met a group of Faroese sailors, leading to his next film The Islands and the Whales. The film went on to win multiple awards including a Peabody, nominations for an Emmy and BAFTA and won two awards at the Jackson Hole Science Media Awards. The film had theatrical release in the US with IFC and broadcast on POV on PBS to critical acclaim. Mike was listed as one of '10 Filmmakers to Watch' by Filmmaker Magazine, with his films funded and supported by the Sundance Institute, SFFilm, Creative Scotland, Danish Film Institute, and others. His films have been broadcast worldwide with the BBC, ARTE, ZDF, NRK, DR and POV on PBS.