Matt Shea

Matt Shea’s films for the BBC, Vice, and Channel 4 combine immersive storytelling with hard-hitting investigation. His reporting has taken him inside some of the world’s most dangerous and secretive environments, including the Albanian mafia and Colombian cartels.

In 2023, his BBC documentary The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate was nominated for both an Emmy and a Paul Foot Award. He followed this with Logan Paul: Bad Influence? and a series of investigations for Channel 4’s Dispatches. His latest film, Palestine Action: The Truth Behind the Ban for Dispatches, continues his focus on controversial and complex stories.

At Vice, Shea produced the Emmy-nominated Gaycation and the Grierson-nominated feature documentary Chemsex, and created and presented the acclaimed series High Society. He also directed the feature film Time To Die, about the global underground euthanasia movement, which won Best Film at Fragments Film Festival, and Imogen, nominated for Best Music Film at the UK Music Video Awards.

He has written for Vice, The Times, and The Guardian, and is co-author, with Jamie Tahsin, of Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate’s Manosphere, nominated for the Sperber Prize. He co-hosts the weekly news podcast Top Comment for BBC Sounds alongside Marianna Spring.