NEW YORK – Paris Hilton is back in the news as the subject of a documentary that screened last year at the Toronto Film Festival and is airing for the first time on MTV later this summer . Directed by Tom Petty’s daughter, Adria Petty, the documentary is titled Paris, Not France and runs 68 minutes. A trailer (below) has been released and is currently spreading its tentacles across the Web.

According to SheWired.com, the documentary, which puports to explore the Paris Hilton phenomenon,  garnered negative reviews from festival critics, who called it uninteresting and whitewashed. Originally, it was scheduled for three screenings but was reduced to one, with “rumors running rampant over lawsuits or various legal concerns from the Hilton camp.”

For fans of the record-breaking sex tape made by Hilton and then-boyfriend Rick Solomon, the documentary reveals that she had no idea the tape existed before it was released on the Web. Driving her car, she talks the moment she learned of its existence.

“When I heard about it I thought, ‘Yeah right. It’s going to be a look-a-like. It’s going to be a joke, but a couple of hours later it was all over online and then I saw it. It’s the most intimate thing you can do and the whole f***ing world is watching it and laughing at you,” she says.

Later, she muses about what might have been. “That’s not what I wanted when I was a little girl. It’s not what I planned. I always looked up to people like Princess Diana and now I can never be like that.”

Hilton’s version of the sex tape is contradicted, however, by first-hand accounts by the people who marketed and sold the tape online, and also by her signature which is clearly visible on the release form that allowed the tape to be distributed on her behalf in the first place. The tape is still being aggresively marketed online.

In making the claim that she was unaware and uninvolved with its release, Hilton may be setting herself up for a public and perhaps legal confrontation with those who have a stake in refuting the claim.

“Once my book comes out and refutes her claims, she will be very embarrassed and I will be very rich,” infamous sex tape marketer Kevin Blatt said Tuesday on the adult chat board, Go Fuck Yourself.