"Starsuckers" Synopsis

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• UK Cinema Release Date: 30/10/2009

• Certificate: 12A

• Genre: Documentary

• Run Time: 103

• Director: 

  Chris Atkins

• Cast: TBA

"Starsuckers" is not a film about celebrities, it‘s a journey through the problems that over–consumption of celebrity–dominated media has inflicted on us and our children. The film includes a series of devastating exposes of established media and PR corporations and individuals, and examines what truth really means within the news media today. This is no hectoring rant or long slow meditation – it‘s a blisteringly paced, anarchic ride which uses humour and mischief to expose the immoral, corrupt and illegal practices of some of the biggest names in the media industry.

The film has been written and directed by Chris Atkins whose last feature documentary, "Taking Liberties", was a critical and commercial hit and nominated for a BAFTA in 2008. Similarly hilarious and hard hitting, "Starsuckers" uses a combination of exclusive footage, real life stories, dazzling animation and undercover filming to weave together the strands of the argument and propel it towards its startling conclusions. The film has been made completely independently over 2 years in secret, and due to the draconian self–censorship that permeates the British broadcasting industry, the film will almost certainly never be screened uncut on TV.