Colby Day is a filmmaker and playwright. Colby wrote the screenplay for the Netflix film, Spaceman, directed by Johan Renck (Chernobyl), starring Adam Sandler (Uncut Gems), Carey Mulligan (Academy Award Nominee for Maestro), and Paul Dano. The film is an adaptation of the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar, and premiered at Berlinale 2024. It is now streaming on Netflix.

His original screenplay In the Blink of an Eye, which was featured on The Black List 2016, was directed by Academy Award winner Andrew Stanton (Wall-E) and produced by Jared Ian Goldman (Russian Doll, Ingrid Goes West) for Searchlight Pictures. The film, currently in post-production, stars Rashida Jones, Kate McKinnon, and Daveed Diggs.

Colby’s short film Lead/Follow, starring Della Saba (Physical) and Sam Nelson Harris (X Ambassadors) is now streaming via Directors Notes after a festival run that included: Austin Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, the Oscar-qualifying deadCenter Film Festival and others. The film was the first for his company Not Impossible Productions. Colby also produced Emma D. Miller’s short documentary The School of Canine Massage, premiering at SXSW 2024.

Colby is currently developing projects about singing robots, haunted houses, and a choose your own adventure film about the nature of endings (which is based on a short story by a famous author he isn’t allowed to talk about yet).

Colby tells stories about space, spiders, magic, monsters, love, loss, and time. Often his stories will break your heart, but they will without fail also offer to help you pick up the pieces and glue them back together again. He prides himself on writing generous stories that trust their audiences.

He is interested in whatever weird ideas you’d like to throw at him. The stranger, more magical, and far out the better. His specialty is playing in big sandboxes with big ideas and telling grounded human stories based in fundamental emotional truths.