



On the last day of my internship, one of his executives gave me a book of correspondence by Hunter Thompson called The Proud Highway where Thompson was roughly the same age I was and at a similar point of having zero success in his career. Working for him helped me realize that documentary filmmaking could be a very powerful and ultimately more rewarding medium (for me personally) to work in. I demoted myself from Production Assistant to intern and did 3 months working for Morgan Spurlock, and he was such an honest and genuine person who really cares about his films.
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By the time I moved to New York I was pursuing both narrative and documentary filmmaking, but after several years of driving actors to airports and getting network TV producers their coffee and bagels, I was losing steam and starting to question what I was doing here. I was actually an English and Theatre major in college, and I started making my own films around 19 years old, mainly because I was tired of performing Chekov for sleeping frat guys. What did you study documentary film? If not, how did it happen? In short, Clancy leads the direction of some of the most intelligent international reporting produced to date. By Natalie Rinn Tim Clancy heads up the Emmy-winning international documentary series, VICE HBO, which investigates pressing global stories, including things like Taliban-supported child suicide bombers, the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, and the refugee trail in Europe from Syria.
