{"id":26012,"date":"2011-10-18T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26012"},"modified":"2011-10-18T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:00:29","slug":"pappas-family-stops-doco-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26012","title":{"rendered":"Pappas Family Stops Doco Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pappas_al1-200x0.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pappas_al1-200x0.jpg','popup','width=200,height=248,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pappas_al1-200x0-tm.jpg\" height=\"124\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pappas Al1-200X0\" \/><\/a>Deceased pro skateboarder <strong>Ben Pappas&#8217;<\/strong> family used Facebook to help stop a planned documentary on the skater&#8217;s troubled life and death, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/familys-campaign-stops-film-on-skater-ben-pappas-20111015-1lqhx.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The documentary, <strong><em>Gnarly: The Ben Pappas Story<\/em><\/strong>, being filmed by Mike Hill from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonshineagency.com.au\/movies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moonshine Movies<\/a><\/strong>, had been criticized as exploitative. . . [Hill] said it had been pulled as soon as he was made aware of the family&#8217;s concerns. A spokeswoman for Louise Asher, Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business, said Film Victoria had withdrawn funding after Moonshine decided to make significant changes to the documentary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the story Pappas&#8217; body &#8220;was found in the Yarra River near Victoria Harbour in Docklands eight days after his ex-girlfriend <strong>Lynette Phillips&#8217;s<\/strong> battered body was discovered at Dights Falls in Abbotsford on March 3, 2007.&#8221; Not sure anyone needs to live through that all over again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/familys-campaign-stops-film-on-skater-ben-pappas-20111015-1lqhx.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deceased pro skateboarder Ben Pappas&#8217; family used Facebook to help stop a planned documentary on the skater&#8217;s troubled life and death, according to a story in The Age. The documentary, Gnarly: The Ben Pappas Story, being filmed by Mike Hill from Moonshine Movies, had been criticized as exploitative. . . [Hill] said it had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26013,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012\/revisions\/26013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}