On today's #OlexShow we talk about street art in the USA and the World, documentary film making, resistance art, social activism, human rights, BANKSY, US elections, far-left Indecline activist group, making of "Saving Banksy" film and "The Art of Protest" as well as why street art can be sold on international auctions for $700.000 but can't be donated for free to art museums with Colin Michael Day - film maker, director, DP, editor, award winning content creator based in Hollywood L.A.
Colin Michael Day - award winning director and documentary filmmaker based in HollyWood, L.A.. Born to a family of a news cameraman he grew up around local news media rooms in Sacramento and got introduced to journalism from a very young age. He has shot nearly 100 short films profiling some of the art world’s most infamous personalities including legends of the American street art scene: Ralph Steadman, Retna, Doze Green, OS Gemeos, Ben Eine, Anthony Lister, Risk, Revok, ROA, Herakut and Niels Shoe Meuiman.
He has also shot film projects featuring Snoop Dog, Sanjay Gupta and Kyrie Irving. He’s collaborated and created content for broadcasting networks like CBS, CNN and IGN. His films tell stories of rebellion, freedom, social and political, mainstream and underground culture, opening a window to the counterculture world that only an insider might get an access to.
His first documentary feature film “Saving Banksy”, shot in 2017, featured on Netflix it has received a Critics Pick award by NY Times and positive reviews by LA Times, Village Voice, HollyWood Reporter, and SF Chronicle.
In 2020 he has released his second feature socio-political documentary film “The Art of Protest” in collaboration with the Indecline street art activist group, featured by Roling Stone magazine it raises uneasy topics of political correctness, social activism, resistance art and human rights.