Friday, April 22, 2011

YouTube - @Morgan Spurlock CBS News At Sundance and Docs paving way to feature films

It's a world that Spurlock knows well - after graduating from New York University film school in 1993, he worked in advertising for several years, actually touring as a trade-show pitchman for Sony.

"I was a carnival barker, basically, doing anything to get the attention of conventioneers," he said.

That led to work directing commercials, then producing online reality shows that he eventually began doing for MTV.

He always had his mind set on movies, and with $50,000 left from funds raised for another reality show, he financed his famous documentary, "Super-Size Me," exposing the dangers of fast food, and actually changing the way a gigantic corporation does business. Read More

CBS News Online Interviews Morgan Spurlock at Sundance 2011 (embedding this video is turned off)

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