Biography

Matt Shea is a British documentary filmmaker, journalist, and presenter whose documentaries often feature "crime" and "fringe" stories. Shea started his career writing for VICE Magazine. As VICE moved into digital, broadcast, and feature documentaries, he got the opportunities to produce a number of films and series including Gaycation, which featured the actor Elliot Page, and Chemsex. He is best known for being the creator, producer, and presenter of High Society, a documentary series that explores drug culture in the UK and features access to real criminals, the feature-length award-winning documentary Time To Die, which was filmed over four years and covers the illegal underground global network that illegally sources, buys, and sells assisted-dying methods, and his viral VICE documentaries such as Iceman, Targeted Individuals, The Pink Cocaine Wave, Ravers Vs. Putin, The Celebrity Millionaires of Competitive Gaming, and The Last Festival on Earth. Shea is most credited by fellow filmmakers and reporters for being the first journalist and presenter to gain access to the Albanian Mafia and Colombian Clan Del Golfo Cartel, for the Channel 4 documentary A New Cocaine Mafia, for his special VICE report about Andrew Tate called The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate, which was released on VICE and other platforms across the world in January of 2023 and later met with criticism from many after accusations of fabricating lies, and for helping to produce two well-received drug programs for Netflix and Channel 5, Britain's Cocaine Epidemic and Dope.