Diablo Magazine - First Peek at the new HBO Documentary Teenage Paparazzo

This weekend, I had a chance to head into San Francisco's Sundance Kabuki Cinemas for an early look at the new documentary film Teenage Paparazzo, then chat with the film's director, Adrian Grenier.

To the uninformed, Grenier is the impossibly good looking lead actor on the hit HBO series, Entourage. On the show, he plays Vincent Chase, one of Hollywood's hottest stars. Having become a celeb by playing one on TV, Grenier the filmmaker wanted to make a documentary about the media and public's fascination with celebrity, told through the seedy filter of tabloid magazines, TV shows, and websites.

Grenier certainly found the perfect subject for his film: 14-year-old Austin Visschedyk, a precocious Los Angeles home schooler who chases Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, and Britney Spears around town, then sells his snaps to Us magazine, TMZ, etc.

Grenier, 34, first encountered Visschedyk when the teen paparazzo blinded him with shots coming out of LAX. Greneir spent three years making the film, two years following Visschedyk and other paparazzi. The moppet-haired Visschedyk (think Justin Bieber with a digital camera, a skateboard, and an amoral and insatiable appetite for exploitation) zips around Hollywood at 3 a.m. on school nights chasing Lindsey and Paris in and out of nightclubs and drive-thrus... (more)