Eddie Huang Premieres ‘Vice Is Broke’ Documentary at Toronto Film Festival: ‘Their Lawyers Are Still Trying to Fight Us’
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor Eddie Huang came to both bury and praise Vice at the opening night of the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday.
The author, chef and former host of the bankrupt media company’s show, “Huang’s World,” was on hand with his new documentary “Vice Is Broke.” The film serves as both an ode to Vice’s anarchic spirit and the generations of aggressive, barrier-pushing, break-shit journalists and filmmakers it employed, as well as a darker look at the greed and questionable ethics that helped send it into Chapter 11.
And Huang, who says he got an NDA he had signed waived in return for unpaid residuals, made it clear that Vice, or what’s left of it, isn’t too happy with what he made. “Their lawyers are still trying to fight us on this film,” Huang said during a question-and-answer session following the documentary’s premiere at TIFF Lightbox Cinema.
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.
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