Starsuckers (2009)

Directed by

Chris Atkins

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

12

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary reveals how celebrities are manufactured by the media. The filmmakers plant fake stories about famous people and show that tabloids publish them without checking facts. It exposes the tricks behind celebrity culture.

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What happens

Starsuckers is a 2009 British documentary film aiming to expose the "shams and deceit involved in creating a pernicious celebrity culture". Directed by Chris Atkins, director of the 2007 documentary Taking Liberties, it shows the production team planting a variety of celebrity-related stories in the UK media, such as a claim that the singer Avril Lavigne had been seen asleep in a nightclub. A variety of tabloid newspapers accepted the stories without corroboration or evidence. The film launched as part of the British Film Institute's 53rd Film Festival. Thirty minutes of footage from the film were shown to the Leveson Inquiry as part of the evidence presented by the film's director, Chris Atkins. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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