Federation Studios is producing and distributing a documentary about British rockstar Pete Doherty’s addiction problems. Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin comes from more than 200 hours of footage filmed over a 10-year period by his partner, the director-musician Katia deVidas.
The 90-minute show, which launches at Mipcom, will show the Libertines frontman plunging into the depths of addiction at the height of his popularity.
DeVidas is director and writer with Fernanda Rossi and the doc is based on an original idea by Christian Fevret. Doherty said: “The talent is the man and comes from the man and comes from the artist and doesn’t come from the drugs, and has never come from the drugs.
Part of the fun and the challenge of creating is to create in spite of circumstances, so, in spite of being a drug addict, or in spite of being clean.
Read more on deadline.com