Documentary-maker Morgan Spurlock, the director of films including Super Size Me and Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?
Super Size Me, released in 2004, was his first film as director, and marked a new direction in accessible, personalised gimmick-oriented documentary-making.
Born and raised in West Virginia, Spurlock earned a BFA at New York university and created the stunt webcast I Bet You Will in 2002, which subsequently became a TV show.
After Super Size Me’s success, Spurlock made Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?, in which he attempted to track down the then-fugitive leader of al-Qaida.
He also contributed to the 2010adaptation of Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner’s Freakonomics (with a segment asking if names influence people’s lives) and POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold in 2011, investigating product placement.
In 2017 Spurlock published an open letter in which he admitted sexual misconduct and resigned from his production company Warrior Poets.
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Documentary-maker Morgan Spurlock, the director of films including Super Size Me and Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?
Super Size Me, released in 2004, was his first film as director, and marked a new direction in accessible, personalised gimmick-oriented documentary-making.
Born and raised in West Virginia, Spurlock earned a BFA at New York university and created the stunt webcast I Bet You Will in 2002, which subsequently became a TV show.
After Super Size Me’s success, Spurlock made Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?, in which he attempted to track down the then-fugitive leader of al-Qaida.
He also contributed to the 2010adaptation of Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner’s Freakonomics (with a segment asking if names influence people’s lives) and POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold in 2011, investigating product placement.
In 2017 Spurlock published an open letter in which he admitted sexual misconduct and resigned from his production company Warrior Poets.
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