Clark Burnett

Filmmaker

Clark is a director in both documentary and narrative film. In college, he interned at Genius, Acres, and Florentine Films (Ken Burns’ production company) and co-created Now, In Color, a docuseries dedicated to expanding the perception of Blackness in America. It has been featured in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, The Huffington Post, Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR), and other outlets. His short films and documentaries have been recognized by such places as The New Haven Documentary Film Festival, The Garden State Film Festival, and The Yale Policy Lab.

A 2018 Princess Grace Foundation Honorarium recipient, Clark’s latest narrative short Athol Park premiered at the 2020 National Film Festival for Talented Youth and took home an audience award.

Clark works an associate digital producer for UNUM at Florentine Films. UNUM is a media platform that uses the Florentine filmography to place current events in their historical context and trace themes throughout history. In February 2021, Clark joined Ken Burns and Sarah Burns on a virtual  panel at Yale moderated by Thomas Allen Harris (view here.) He has the Florentine Films family to thank for a growing interest in karaoke.

In 2019, Clark graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in sociology, earning distinction in the major.

2021 Yale Schwarzman Center Event

For more on the event, take a look here:

The Art of Storytelling in a Time of Disinformation

Never forget your ROOTS!

I started this whole film thing during the early days of Youtube. Here’s a video I made as a freeee 12-year-old living in a simpler time. A tech review, if you can call it that.