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Podcast: We're Watching What?!
Episode: We're Interviewing Who?! - Clair Titley and Nasubi for The Contestant
Description: It's The Truman Show meets Naked and Afraid meets Extreme Couponing? We welcome documentary director Clair Titley and the prizewinning participant himself, Nasubi, to talk about their stranger than fiction look at The Contestant.
More about The Contestant:
This true story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing, prompts innumerable questions about our culture of oversharing.Before the onslaught of reality television in the West, there was an ominous harbinger in Japan...