TORONTO - Hotel heiress Paris Hilton seems to approve of a new documentary about her life.
"Paris, Not France," from Los Angeles-born filmmaker Adria Petty, dissects the socialite's celebrity status as it follows the heiress and her tiny dogs around the world and features interviews with the Hilton family and media experts.
Hilton and her rocker boyfriend, Benji Madden, attended a screening of the doc at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday night, bypassing reporters on the red carpet to pose for photos and then head inside the Ryerson Theatre.
Sitting in a reserved section of the public audience, the tabloid target could be seen laughing at her candid moments in the film, like the part where she says she never wanted to go to college because she knew what she wanted to do in life and it didn't "involve learning much of anything."
The blond paparazzi favourite -- whose empire includes an album, perfume and defunct reality TV show in which she coined the phrase "that's hot" -- confesses in the doc that she has purposely put on a baby voice and dumb demeanour in public as part of her "Paris, the heiress" persona.
She also says she was deeply hurt by the leak of a sex tape featuring her and ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon in 2004.
The doc does not mention Hilton's 23-day jail term last year for violating probation on alcohol-related reckless driving charge.
At the end of the screening, Hilton, Madden and the rest of the audience applauded. Hilton then gave Petty a kiss on the cheek before leaving through the back door with her beau and their entourage.
The screening was the only one scheduled at the festival after two previous ones were cancelled.
Reports were swirling that Hilton's handlers had something to do with the cancellations, either because they didn't want the film widely seen or because they wanted to increase the hype about it.
Petty told the audience after the screening that there were "so many inaccuracies in the press" about the doc at the festival and that it just falls in line with the constant false reporting Hilton faces every day in her life.
"It's amazing that this woman is a human being and that people actually can be ruthless enough to forget that," said Petty.
