Time to revisit the glamor — and dark side — of early-2000s socialite culture in New York City.
On Thursday, Hulu exclusively shared the trailer for its documentaryQueenmaker: The Making of an It Girlwith PEOPLE, providing a first look at the film from director and formerTransparentproducer Zackary Drucker.
The documentary features interviews with figures likeOlivia PalermoandTinsley Mortimer, as well as a number of publicists, photographers and gossip bloggers as they recall how pop culture grew fascinated with and then tore apart public figures likeParis Hilton, among others.
The trailer hints at interviews with a then-anonymous gossip blogger who now regret the carelessness of the early internet age in celebrity culture. According to an official synopsis for the movie, audiences will “learn the truth behind Park Avenue Peerage’s authorship,” among other revelations regarding internet publications from the time period.
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Drucker, who won a special jury award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival for her HBO documentaryThe Stroll, tells PEOPLE her new movie “takes place at the intersection of salacious fun and juicy pop culture during the rise of the often-vicious early-aughts blog culture, offering a candid insider perspective on the toll this seemingly glittering lifestyle took on the women who lived it.”
“Through a prism of firsthand stories from women likeTinsley Mortimerand Olivia Palermo, told with some time and distance, the era’s ruthlessness comes fully into view,” Drucker says. “The film is a platform from which we can celebrate complex, powerful women who have maintained a confident sense of self through all the noise.”
“Ultimately, I wanted to celebrate the women ofQueenmaker— and all women — taking back their own stories, with their own voices, loudly, clearly and without fear,” she adds.
An official synopsis for the documentary reads that the film’s “interviews with the publicists, journalists, and, of course, socialites, that ruled the city in the early aughts, immerse us in the gilded world of heiress-era New York City.”
The New York Timespreviously profiled Park Avenue Peerage blogger James Kurisunkal back in 2007, covering how he founded the blog as a college student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girldebuts on Hulu May 17.
source: people.com
