Morgan Spurlock
Filmmaker & Documentarian | Emerging Technology Explorer
About
Morgan Spurlock is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose work challenges perceptions and drives social change. His breakthrough hit 'Super Size Me' won the Directors Prize at Sundance and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Spurlock's insightful documentaries have tackled topics from the marketing of brand identity to the dark side of the music industry. As a pioneer of crowd-sourced filmmaking, he has also explored how emerging technologies are reshaping media production and storytelling.
Spurlock's keynotes provide unique, on-the-ground perspectives on the evolving media landscape and the transformative power of documentary filmmaking.
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The greatest TED Talk ever sold
With humor and persistence, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dives into the hidden but influential world of brand marketing, on his quest to make a completely sponsored film about sponsorship. (And yes, onstage naming rights for this talk were sponsored too. By whom and for how much? He'll tell you.)
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