Scott Day

Scott Day was born into a middle-class family on April 6, 1996, in the city of Colac, Victoria to Gabriela Day and Martin Day, a schoolteacher and police officer. The youngest of four siblings, he is Gabriela and Martin's only son. Day grew up in Colac and later moved to Lara, Victoria with his mum when his eldest sister fell pregnant when he was 12-years-old. Day excelled at school, graduating in 2013 as the dux of his year level and achieving the highest English score at the time when he was 16. From a very young age, he showed a keen interest in filmmaking and animation specifically, making animated short films when he was 10 and 11 and writing stories and plays from the age of four years old onwards. Upon finishing high school, Day studied Film and Television at Swinburne University of Technology for one year, but dropped out after feeling the course wasn't for him. Day would then try various different courses in accounting, law and a general arts course, but would drop out of all of them. He attained a Diploma of entertainment journalism from Collarts in 2017 before working at TeePee Studios briefly in 2018 and returning to the Swinburne film course in 2019 and dropping out again. In the meantime, Day was making Everyone's a Robot with the intention of submitting it into film festivals from 2016 to 2019. However, it didn't get into any, so he released it on YouTube in January 2020. In February 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Scott secured a job at Farm Foods in Breakwater, packaging meat products. At the same time, Wanda & Sully was in pre-production and he used the money from his job towards funding the feature film, which he originally envisioned as a webseries. Day secured a spot at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2021 where he is attending university and studying Screenwriting. Day was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome when he was 12-years-old and identifies as asexual. He's also an agnostic. Among the media that has inspired his writing are The Metamorphosis, Being John Malkovich (1999), Community (2009), Being There (1979), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The Social Network (2010), No Country for Old Men (2007), and Stanley Kubrick's filmography from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) to Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Day's preferred writing style belongs in the absurdist fiction genre.