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Marcus A. Clarke
DIRECTOR | PRODUCER | FILMMAKER
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Marcus A. Clarke
is a Brooklyn-born director & producer who directed Apple's feature-length documentary, The WIZRD, following Atlanta rap superstar Future. Most recently he directed three episodes of Netflix's reboot of Unsolved Mysteries V1 produced by 21 Laps, and three of eight installments in the Netflix Original Hip Hop docuseries Rapture, produced by Mass Appeal a 2018 SXSW selection.
Clarke has 20 years+ of experience working in commercial production, television and film. In his early years he worked as a film runner for Spike Lee's Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks, was a production manager at table-top commercial co. Santiago Inc., and got an early start as a commercial first assistant director.
His producer credits include CNN Films & Mass Appeal’s feature-length documentary on hip-hop fashion Fresh Dressed (Sundance Selection, 2015) and Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop (2018), which was the first hip hop documentary selection released as part of PBS’s critically-acclaimed Great Performances series.
Currently, Marcus is the director and an executive producer for Blood Brothers, Kenya Barris' first documentary production out of his previous Netflix overall deal.
Blood Brothers, tells the extraordinary story of the friendship between Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali, was released in Q3 of 2021 on Netflix.
A PADI certified scuba diver & an alumnus of Middlebury College, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film & Media Studies x Sociology.