These guys are just enjoying the ride — the money, the women, the weather and the non-stop media attention. In real life, Grenier has a much more ambivalent attitude about tabloid culture. Chatting up his new project at a downtown Toronto hotel, the soft-spoken actor-director explains that he was out on the town one night when he noticed a year-old snapping photos of him.
It blew my mind, so I was primed to think of the media in a new way. And I saw this kid who jarred me and cracked open the facade for me to peer into this world. He understands, he says, why people talk about people they don't know. We need to project ideas, and we use other people to embody those ideas.
They help us to shape who we are and what we choose to reject or imitate. Making Teenage Paparazzo is his way of ''looking to recognise that process and shed light on it. One of the consequences of all that no-holds-barred attention to those deemed to be celebrities, he says, is that it's much harder to present idealised images of the famous. Acknowledging human frailty might be better. Perhaps, he suggests, ''the tabloid explosion of the past 10 or 15 years was the public lashing out, calling the illusion for what it is, trying to express and define'' human fallibility.
Yet, although he tried not to be overcensorious, Grenier began to worry about Austin's long-term exposure to the world of celebrities, images and the paparazzi imperative.
Austin's youth helps him, at times; his photographic subjects notice him and occasionally cut him some slack. And it begins to get him other kinds of attention; in the midst of the documentary, Austin himself starts to become the subject of media stories. Grenier tried to interest him in another approach to photography.
He decided to show him a famous photograph, a Pulitzer Prize-winning image of an anti-war protester killed at Kent State University in Why did Grenier choose that particular image? He seems, in the documentary, to be frustrated by Austin's response but he says that ''what I took away from it was that there is no righteous way to engage in photography''. There was no way for him to ''teach'' Austin anything, and it would be wrong to try; the best he could do was ''present him with options and let him choose''.
The important thing was that ''if he was going to go out there and exploit people, that he should take responsibility for it''. The documentary follows the teenage paparazzo over several years: right now, Grenier says, Austin is ''beginning his life as a young man, he's 17 and he's starting to find himself and mature''.
Teenage Paparazzo was a long-term project and Grenier is keen to offer ''a tremendous loving shout-out to Jim Mol, my editor, who really made the film come to life'', and helped him look objectively at his own role in the process. He plans to keep working behind the camera; when he was 23, he made a documentary, Shot in the Dark , about looking for his biological father.
He has written and directed a short film, Euthanasia. Credited With External Sites. Sign In. Austin Visschedyk. He began the search a few years later, after he realized the negatives consisted of some of the best undeveloped street photography of the 20th century. After some searching, it was revealed that Maier was a career-nanny who had died in We found six. The Naked Eye Directed by two-time Oscar winner Louis Clyde Stoumen , this documentary celebrates photography through history by looking at pioneers in the field, such as Margaret Bourke-White.
Though he covers works by multiple photographers,. Actor-cum-documentarian, Adrian Grenier , happens to be one of those unlucky celebrities, who always have paparazzi surrounding them.
Constantly being pursued by the paparazzi, both real and fake, on a daily basis has lead Grenier to think about what really drives the paparazzi to stalk and pursue celebrities. While walking through an airport one day, Grenier was photographed by a kid that he thought was just a fan, who actually turned out to be a year-old professional paparazzo named Austin Visschedyk. How can a lady resist that perfectly coiffed hair, chiseled features and piercing eyes? While Grenier may be the filmmaker here, he is also the celebrity who acts as the catalyst for the story.
When year-old aspiring photographer Austin Visschedyk takes his first paparazzi picture of Adrian Grenier , a spark is ignited, launching him into the world of celebrity tabloid photos and glamour.
Tuesday, March 29th. If the perceived douchiness of Adrian Grenier is preventing you from seeing this film, let me assuage your fears- Teenage Paparazzo is very, very good. Sure, it's familiar territory for the star, but this isn't some superficial vanity project or an episode of Entourage come to life.
It is an in-depth look at the symbiotic relationship between celebrities and the public, as well as an assured directorial debut. It all begins with Grenier being flash-blasted by 14 year-old Austin Visschedyk in a conveniently documented night on the town.
Considering recent "documentaries" like Exit Through The Giftshop and Catfish, it's hard not to be skeptical A look at what's new on DVD today: " Black Lightning " Directed by Dmitriy Kiselev and Aleksandr Voytinskiy Released by Universal Studios " Wanted " director Timur Bekmambetov produced this Russian action flick about a man and his flying car, using the same effects team that worked on all of his previous films including "Night Watch.
From Madman Entertainment comes the documentary Teenage Paparazzo. It is a story of mutual exploitation, of how Entourage star Adrian Grenier , after being stalked by the press one night, found the year-old paparazzo photographer Austin Visschedyk and turned the cameras on him, in an to attempt to penetrate the world of tabloid journalism. To win, email encoregiveaways gmail. Service in the UK, reckons Michel Roux , is "pretty terrible", so here he tries to sharpen it up with an hour dedicated to training new front-of-house staff.
It's reality by the books, with a combustible cast of characters and an elimination process, and it's not entirely dissimilar to the poshing-up show Ladette To Lady, only with a foie gras garnish. Local toff Norman Swanscombe is implicated,. Originally posted during the Boston International Film Festival, this review is being republished as the movie is set to air on HBO tonight.
Asked what they'd like be when they grow up, and given -- among other choices -- CEO of a company, United States Senator, or one of many other prestigious positions in the employment world, 42 percent of all junior high students polled responded that they'd rather be a celebrity's assistant. Not a celebrity: A celebrity's assistant. That's messed up, people, but it's also the state of our culture today.
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