Chapter II

About Mikey Kay

Award winning Director at Toronto Documentary Feature and Short Film Festival for The Wheelchair Mafia (2023). I’m working closely with GE Healthcare to tell stories as a correspondent and filmmaker, on COVID and healthcare across the planet, spanning 4 seasons, deploying solo across the U.S, Europe, and India, to film, audio mix, script and edit over 100 x 5-10min docs and reports (2020 – 2024).

I’ve operated as a correspondent and filmmaker, storytelling across national security, aviation, med-tech, science, mental health, political, conservation, religion, and energy-based stories, that have been broadcast on the BBC, CNN, ABC News, MSNBC, National Geographic, History Channel, Travel Channel, GE Healthcare Social Media, and Vogue. I am an accomplished correspondent, host, camera operator, writer and editor. And can operate as a correspondent and/or with a camera, at high altitudes being a mountaineer, or sub-surface being a qualified SCUBA diver. In the last few years I have filmed in India, Iraq, Siberia, South Africa, Peru, Nicaragua, Namibia, Vietnam, Columbia, Japan, Kenya, Ethiopia, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Europe, and the United States including Alaska.

My latest award-winning short film, The Wheelchair Mafia, captures the incredible work by the remarkable human beings at a dog shelter ninety minutes south of Bangkok. The Wheelchair Mafia won Best Direction at Toronto Featured Documentary and Short Film Festival.

Mikey Kay

Fimmaker, Journalist

Chapter I

About Mikey Kay

In my first chapter, I spent 20 years flying and operating assault helicopters as well as strategic planning, in Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force, serving on operational flying tours in Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia and Iraq, as well as strategy and diplomacy tours in Afghanistan, Sumatra (post-tsunami), India and Africa. I quickly rose to Senior Officer status and spent my final years before military retirement as a military advisor within the UK’s Ministry of Defense.