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Eddie Huang Premieres ‘Vice Is Broke’ Documentary at Toronto Film Festival: ‘Their Lawyers Are Still Trying to Fight Us’
Eddie Huang says Shane Smith and Vice have threatened legal action over 'Vice Is Broke,' his new documentary about the failed media company.
He added that Shane Smith, the colorful and controversial Vice co-founder whose bad-boy reputation helped attract hundreds of millions of dollars in investment from media companies like Disney and Discovery, refused his requests for an interview. Huang made it clear that he doesn’t approve of Smith’s leadership style or his behavior after Vice went bankrupt and agreed to be acquired by Fortress Investment Group and a consortium of investors. Huang said he spent $380,000 of his own money making the documentary, which celebrates Vice’s scrappy early days as a free magazine that offered sex tips and provocative photo shoots, as well as its evolution into a globe-trotting media organization, covering hotspots like Sierra Leone and Liberia (though Huang notes that Vice tended to dwell on the conflict and violence in those countries, instead of highlighting the positive parts of their cultures and the people who live there).
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