Bill Day (filmmaker)

Bill Day is an American documentary filmmaker who graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and who has been employed by both the National Geographic Channel and Discovery Channel.[1] For CNN, he produced a documentary film which took the Osa Peninsula as its theme.[2]

Bill Day
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
OccupationFilmmaker
YouTuber
EmployerDiscovery Channel
National Geographic Channel
Notable work
Missionary Positions
The Pussycat Preacher
Real or Fake? (YouTube show)
Partner(s)Marcheline Bertrand (1978–1989)

Career

Day directed the documentary Saviors of the Forest which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.[3] He also directed Rubber Jungle, a behind the scenes look at the life of Brazilian labor leader Chico Mendes and the movie about his life.[4] In 2002, Day co-produced the musical documentary Under The Covers[5] followed by Alternative Rock and Roll Years in 2003 for Discovery Channel.[6] Day served as a field producer for Hopkins 24/7, a television documentary series.[7] With Carlo Gennarelli, he co-produced Ordinary Joe, a documentary film about Joe Sciacca, a Vietnam veteran from New York City.[8] Day made a film about XXXchurch.com called Missionary Positions.[9] He also produced and directed The Pussycat Preacher, a film about Heather Veitch and her organization, JC's Girls.[10] He now holds a YouTube channel of the name 'billschannel' which posts videos of wildlife trips around the world and a series named 'Real or Fake?' This series shows him and his research group 'The Chewy Piranhas' uncover photographs and videos on the internet and using various methods to show whether they are portraying real-life events, fake hoaxes or unknown mysteries. Bill's pioneering work has inspired Angelina Jolie to executive produce a variant of the Real or Fake show with the BBC.[11]

Personal life

He dated Marcheline Bertrand for a time, and helped her raise Angelina Jolie and James Haven, both of whom had been born to Bertrand while she was married to Jon Voight.[12] Day and Bertrand eventually broke up.

References
  1. Pradeep Thakur. Angelina Jolie: The Word's Most Powerful Celebrity?. Lulu. p. 39. ISBN 8190870599.
  2. Heleen van den Hombergh. No Stone Unturned: Building Blocks of Environmentalist Power Versus Transnational Industrial Forestry in Costa Rica. Rozenberg Publishers. p. 161. ISBN 9036190827.
  3. "Saviors of the Forest". Sundance Institute. 1993.
  4. Day, Bill. "Rubber Jungle". IMDB.
  5. Day, Bill. "Under The Covers".
  6. Day, Bill. "Alternative Rock and Roll Years".
  7. Erica Goode (August 27, 2000). "When the Life-and-Death Drama is Real". The New York Times. Retrieved January 12, 2013.
  8. "Ordinary Joe". PBS. Retrieved January 12, 2013.
  9. "What would Jesus do?: Former $2000-a-night stripper Heather Veitch, now a born-again Christian, tells Gaby Wood why she's bringing the gospel to the 'adult industry'". The Observer. February 12, 2006. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
  10. "The Pussycat Preacher". New Orleans Film Society. Retrieved January 12, 2013.
  11. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/01/angelina-jolie-bbc-fake-news
  12. Jim Jerome (April 11, 1983). "For Single Father Jon Voight, Table for Five is a Story Close to His Own Painful Experience". People. 19 (14). Retrieved January 12, 2013.
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