Philip J Day

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Philip J Day
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Born
Harrogate, England
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, founder and president of Edge West Productions, writer, producer, and director

Philip J Day is a British film producer, screenwriter, showrunner and author.

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His films have been awarded a Peabody, two Emmys, seven Emmy nominations, and twenty-one Telly Awards. His credits include Sky TV, NBC, Turner Broadcasting System, PBS, BBC TV, National Geographic Channel, Discovery, Channel Four (UK), The History Channel, Science Channel, Travel Channel, TLC and PBS.

Day has collaborated on series, such as Stan Lee's Lucky Man, Kindred Spirits, Blood Relatives and Love Kills for Investigation Discovery, Alaska: The Last Frontier for Discovery, and National Geographic Explorer.

Day formed Edge West Productions in 2008, to develop and produce TV shows. The company has produced and collaborated on more than a hundred hours of television, such as Curiosity (TV Series) Volcano Time Bomb, Inside Rio Carnival, The Real Roswell, Tunnel to a Lost World, Lost Cities of the Amazon, The Skyjacker That Got Away, Great Escape: The Final Secrets, and Nasca Lines The Buried Secrets.

Family

Philip Day is the son of Hazel Day, a notable actress and opera singer, and Brian Day (deceased), a chartered accountant. Hazel is known for performances with the York light Opera Company. Her most performances were in Kiss Me Kate, [1] Song of Norway, [2] and finally Kismet. [3]

Career

In 2023 Day produced The Cello (2023 film), an international co-production starring Jeremy Irons and Tobin Bell, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. In 2021 Day directed the six-part, crime series Dying to Be Famous, about the suspicious death of black model, Ryan Singleton, which aired on Bounce TV. That same year, he was co-executive producer on 13 episodes of the supernatural reality show, Kindred Spirits. [4]

In 2019, The Russian Bride, starring Corbin Bernsen and Kristina Pimenova, which Day produced, was chosen to close the Fantasporto International Film Festival,. [5]

Between 2016 and 2018, Day worked with notable comic book author Stan Lee on Stan Lee's Lucky Man. Day also worked with director Robert Rodriguez for the BBC show Robert Rodriguez' Ten Minute Film School. [6] Day wrote and directed twenty documentaries for National Geographic including a film about D. B. Cooper, [7] a man who has eluded the FBI for over thirty years. [8]

His two-hour film about the Luxor massacre [9] [10] was Massacre in Luxor. [11]

In 2000, Day created the award-winning series for TLC Why Doctors Make Mistakes. A year later Day produced the TV show High Stakes: Bet Your Life on Vegas which partnered the director with Emmy Award winning actor Ray Liotta. [12]

In 2006 Day moved to California, where he set up his production company Edge West Productions. Between 2008 and 2018 Edge West won eighteen Telly Awards for productions like The Skyjacker That Got Away for National Geographic Channel. In 2010 Philip J. Day was nominated for an Emmy Award at the 2010 News and Documentary Emmy Awards for the film The Skyjacker That Got Away . [13]

Held At Gunpoint

In 2009 Day and his team had been filming in the desert of southern Peru on a film about the Nazca Lines for National Geographic Channel. At around 3:45 am five armed men, wearing face masks, scaled a twenty-foot wall to break into the hotel, where Day and his team were asleep. The assailants first took the receptionist and hotel manager hostage at gunpoint. The receptionist was bound and gagged while the manager was forced to provide a master key for all the bedrooms. The attackers had specifically come to steal expensive film equipment. They beat up several people and stole some equipment, but the actions of hotel staff saved the crew from a more severe and potentially life-threatening robbery. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "York Light Production 1964."
  2. ↑ "York Light Production 1965."
  3. ↑ "York Light Production 1966."
  4. ↑ "Philip Day". IMDb. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  5. ↑ "Fantasporto Closes with Russian Bride"
  6. ↑ "BBC Moving Pictures gives movie maverick, Robert Rodriguez, the opportunity to teach a class of film students everything there is to know about filmmaking in just ten minutes."
  7. ↑ "Sky Jacker vanishes without a trace." Archived 15 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ "Sky Jacker eludes FBI for over thirty years."
  9. ↑ "Insight: The Death of Innocents: The Luxor Massacre."
  10. ↑ BBC News: Friday, 6 December 2002."Massacre in Luxor."
  11. ↑ ""
  12. ↑ "High Stakes: Bet Your Life on Vegas"
  13. ↑ Director And Cameraman Philip J Day is nominated for an Emmy for "The Skyjacker That Got Away" Archived 14 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ "Robbers Hold Up NatGeo Team At Nasca Hotel."
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