A drian Grenier was an actor with a long resume of bit parts before he landed the role of Hollywood actor Vince in the HBO series "Entourage," which launched him to stardom. Apparently not lacking a sense of irony, Grenier was bemused to find that having played a celebrity of whom everyone wanted a piece in "Entourage," he had in fact become that in real life as well. He was particularly mystified by how, suddenly, his every move seemed to attract swarms of paparazzi.
When he was ambushed one night by a paparazzo who was barely into puberty, Grenier took the opportunity to take him aside and ask what's up. The kid was one Austin Visschedyk, a home-schooled 14-year-old photographer who grew up in Hollywood with an ambition to make it as a professional paparazzo. As it turned out, he was already there, making $500 to $2,000 per shot of starlets and other tabloid fodder.
Grenier had trained the camera on himself before — in the documentary film "Shot in the Dark" (2002), which saw him trying to track down the father who had abandoned him as a child — and he decided to do it again with "Teenage Paparazzo," tagging along with Visschedyk on his shoots.