Nick Day is a British born, US-based filmmaker specializing in the topic of consciousness. His most notable work to date as director is the documentary ''
Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela''.
Career
Day trained and worked as an editor in London while studying cinema as part of the
British Film Institute
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University of London
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diploma program. After relocating to the US, he worked for several years in television production on a wide range of programming, including commercials, news, current affairs, and arts and entertainment for broadcast in Italy, Brazil, Germany, as well as the US. He later produced and directed the documentary ''
Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela'' with Maurizio Benazzo, which won several awards.
Day also won an award for best screenplay for ''
The Fallen'', a World War I drama directed by
Ari Taub. Day currently produces the DVD series ''The Consciousness Chronicles'', which documents the latest research and theory of consciousness, and includes interviews with
David Chalmers
David John Chalmers (; born 20 April 1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York Univers ...
, Rupert Sheldrake,
Deepak Chopra, Marilyn Schlitz,
Dean Radin, and
Stuart Hameroff. He is also director and co-writer with
Stuart Hameroff of ''
Mindville'', an animated feature film currently in development.
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Day has appeared on panels on conscious filmmaking and guest-lectured at ]USC School of Cinematic Arts
The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) houses seven academic divisions: Film & Television Production; Cinema & Media Studies; John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts; John Wells Division of Writing for Sc ...
and University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
's Department of Anthropology. He speaks on consciousness
Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience and awareness of internal and external existence. However, the lack of definitions has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debates by philosophers, theologians, linguisticians, and scien ...
and the cinema, and has also presented at the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson, AZ. Day is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists.
Filmography
Director
*''Mindville'' (TBA)[Watching Nick Day's Film Mindville Grow: A Slideshow]
Huffington Post
*'' Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela'' (2004)[
]
Producer
*''The Consciousness Chronicles'' (2011)[
]
Screenplay
*'' The Fallen'' (2004)The Fallen
Rotten Tomatoes
References
External links
*
Mela Films
*http://MindvilleMovie.com
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Year of birth missing (living people)
American documentary film directors
Living people