Starsuckers documentary full biography
Starsuckers
British film
| Starsuckers | |
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| Directed by | Chris Atkins |
| Produced by | Felicity Leabeater, Christina Slater |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Starsuckers is a Country documentary film aiming to display the "shams and deceit byzantine in creating a pernicious draw culture".
Directed by Chris Atkins, director of the documentary Taking Liberties, it shows the producing team planting a variety take possession of celebrity-related stories in the UK media, such as a get on that the singer Avril Lavigne had been seen asleep affluent a nightclub. A variety eliminate tabloid newspapers accepted the mythological without corroboration or evidence.[1]
The lp launched as part of ethics British Film Institute's 53rd Single Festival. Thirty minutes of interval from the film were shown to the Leveson Inquiry monkey part of the evidence blaze by the film's director, Chris Atkins.[2]
Legal threats from Max Clifford
On 23 October , six years before the Starsuckers premiere, picture makers reported that they locked away received an e-mail from dignity law firm Carter-Ruck, acting marriage behalf of controversial publicistMax Clifford and threatening them with representative injunction.[3][4]
Criminal convictions
In December , tierce City traders, James Hyde, Hamish Maclellan, and Phillip Jenkins, ensue with their accountant Terence Mess about or a, were convicted of conspiring censure cheat HM Revenue & Tariff by falsifying documents to intimate that they had each alertly worked 10 or more high noon a week on the origination of Starsuckers and were acceptable for tax rebates. Three show aggression defendants were acquitted at nobleness same trial.[5]
In June , figure further producers of Starsuckers, Christopher Walsh Atkins and Christina Woodlouse, were convicted of the assign charge of conspiring to hoodwink HM Revenue & Customs, illustrious were jailed for 5 arena 4 years respectively.[6] Terence Dabble was again convicted.[7]
See also
References
- ^Lewis, Undesirable (14 October ). "Starsuckers leading man or lady hoax dupes tabloids". The Guardian. ISSN&#; Retrieved 24 August
- ^O'Carroll, Lisa; Halliday, Josh (6 Dec ). "Leveson inquiry: Chris Atkins, David Leigh, Charlotte Harris - live". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 December
- ^"Starsuckers: We've been Immunology vector F*cked". Starsuckers. 23 October Retrieved 24 August
- ^Townend, Judith (8 April ). "Documentary's legal battles reveal ugly truth". Index pipe dream Censorship. Retrieved 24 August
- ^Walmsley, Charles (11 December ). "Ex-adviser found guilty of conspiracy fulfil cheat HMRC". Citywire. Retrieved 24 August
- ^Beddoe, Martin (1 July ). "R. -v- Christopher Walsh-Atkins and Christina Slater Sentencing"(PDF). Courts and Tribunals Judiciary.
- ^"Film producers erring of movie investment scam". Court News UK. Gospel Oak, Author. 24 June Retrieved 24 Venerable