Clancy Chassay

History

Clancy Chassay is a writer, director, actor, and journalist. Chassay appeared as a child actor in two films by Derek Jarman - "Wittgenstein" and "War Requiem". He was a correspondent for the Guardian newspaper from the outbreak of the Lebanon war in July 2006 and was based in Beirut. He now works as a director and screenwriter in Los Angeles, USA.

Profile

Movies

The Foreigner

Writer

Inspired by real events, a journalist covering the aftermath of an air strike in the Middle East is taken captive by militants.

The Foreigner

Director

Inspired by real events, a journalist covering the aftermath of an air strike in the Middle East is taken captive by militants.

Under the Bombs

Reporter

In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.

Wittgenstein

Young Wittgenstein

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.

War Requiem

Young Wilfred

A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen's poems reflecting the war's horrors. It shows the story of an Englishman soldier (Wilfred Owen) and a nurse (his bride) during World War I. It also includes actual footage of contemporary wars (WWII, Vietnam, Angola, etc.)