Clancy Walker has over a decade of experience working across documentary film and tv, short form, web and branded content.

Before graduating from Deakin University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Film and Digital Media, Clancy Walker was already working as a camera operator on the Emmy Award winning program Whale Wars (Animal Planet). This major US television show was shot entirely on-board Sea Shepherd vessels in the Southern Ocean over four months in 2013. In 2014, Clancy returned as a shooter/producer on Ocean Warriors (Animal Planet), which won Best Series at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, and became the feature documentary Chasing the Thunder (Brick City TV), which won the Impact Award at EarthXFilm Texas, among other awards.

Specialising in environmental impact documentary filmmaking, Clancy crafts strong character - driven stories that humanise struggles to protect the more-than-human world. In 2024, Clancy co-directed the feature documentary Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire with Walbunja man Adam Nye. This film follows Indigenous rangers as they use fire to heal Country after the devastating Black Summer bushfires. It was selected for the Wildscreen Film Festival in the UK, the International Multicultural Film Festival, and picked up the Diversity Award at the Far South Film Festival.

Clancy began to collaborate with First Nations peoples to tell social-environmental justice stories in 2019, when living and working aboard a sailboat in the unceded waters of so-called British Columbia, Canada. Working alongside First Nations leaders and activists and high profile figures such as Pamela Anderson, Martin Sheen and David Suzuki, Clancy produced and shot multiple marine conservation campaign videos documenting the impact of salmon aquaculture on Indigenous rights, food sovereignty, ocean ecologies and captured governments.

From 2019 - 2023, Clancy also worked extensively as a shooter/producer for Sea Shepherd in north Mexico producing, shooting and editing the Milagro Web Series and campaign videos. This series centred around the international efforts to protect the planet’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise, from poaching. It involved high-danger proximity to Mexican Cartels, who opposed the conservation efforts of the vaquita with increasing violence. Off the back of this web series success, Clancy has been commissioned to direct a feature documentary on the human efforts to save this species from extinction, drawing on ten years of archival footage. Currently in production, this film is capturing events as they unfold in Mexico.

Alongside documentary, Clancy produces, directs and shoots film projects across a wide range of different arenas and platforms. These include: working closely with artists in the music industry to create video content, including Chet Faker, Allday, Mallrat, and major Australian festivals; working on short form video for organisations such as VICE, Paul Watson Foundation, and The Wilderness Society; as well as working alongside a number of stakeholders to create branded content. Clancy will continue to tell and capture stories that not only highlight social and environmental injustice, but change it.

He can be attached to major projects as a director, shooter/producer, cinematographer or camera operator. On smaller scale projects, Clancy offers complete production services from concept to edit.

Clancy acknowledges the Traditional Owners, the Walbunja peoples of the Yuin Nation where he lives and works. He pays his respects to Elders past, present and emerging, celebrating the stories, culture and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. He acknowledges sovereignty was never ceded.