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Sam Clarke

British documentary director and filmmaker (sam-clarke.com) with Alport syndrome, known for the 10,000km cycling/skydiving adventure documentary "My Only Antidote".

Oct 10, 2026

13:01
Making mistakes is such a big part of growing up.
13:05
Yeah, definitely.
13:06
So I think there was never any pressure on me to do anything in particular.
13:14
They didn't say you need to go to uni or you need to do this.
13:18
So I was influenced by a group of friends that I met at school.
13:23
I was always quite good at building stuff anyway.
13:25
I'd basically built a skate park in my garden anyway by this point.

8 MINS LATER

21:20
So just tell us a bit about that story and how that came about and obviously your process of what you were trying to feel at that time and sort of mentally go through.

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