Matt Shea

Matt Shea (born 16 December 1991) is an English-American documentary filmmaker, journalist and presenter.

He is known for presenting the VICE documentaries Iceman, Targeted Individuals, Zombie Drug: The Truth About Flakka, and How Lean Became Rap's Most Wanted Drug.He produces and presents High Society, a documentary series that explores drug culture in the UK and features access to real criminals.Shea's documentaries often feature criminal access and fringe stories.

Shea started his career writing for VICE Magazine.

As VICE moved into digital, broadcast and feature documentaries, Shea produced a number of films and series including Gaycation, which featured the actress Ellen Page, and Chemsex.

He also directed the feature length 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.

Shea has also produced drug programming for Netflix and Channel 5, producing Channel 5's Britain's Cocaine Epidemic and Netflix's Dope.

He produced a documentary about the famous fraudster and sex party organiser Lord Edward Davenport.

Presenting

As a presenter, Shea is best known for his films about crime and drugs, such as the High Society series.In Inside the Laughing Gas Black Market, Shea met criminals who broke into hospitals in order to steal canisters of the recreational drug nitrous oxide.How Weed Laws Are Failing the UK portrayed new trends in the cannabis black market including groppers (grandmothers who grow cannabis because they are seen as less suspicious) and gangs using heat-seeking drones to find and rob rival cannabis grow operations.

In The Truth About Ecstasy Shea witnesses students manufacturing ecstasy tablets in Brighton, and visits the first ever on-site drug-testing at a UK music festival.

Shea has also met Wim Hof, embedded with Targeted Individuals, and covered competitive gaming in South Korea.

• 2015 – Webbie Award for Best Web Personality/Host 2015 for Iceman
• 2015 – Grierson Award – nomination – for Chemsex
• 2016 – Emmy Award – nomination – for Gaycation
• 2019 - Fragments Festival Best Feature - winner - for Time to Die