Season 1 - 8 x 10 minutes | International Premiere at CANNESERIES Season 7
In English, subtitled in French and in English
Episodes 1 & 2
In presence of creator and actress Vivek Shraya and director Vanessa Matsui.
Synopsis
What happens when a star isn’t born? An adaptation of Vivek Shraya's hit play and subsequent book, How To Fail as a Popstar answers this question with hilarity, vulnerability, a healthy dose of imagination, and of course, music. The series tracks the journey of a young queer brown boy growing up in Edmonton trying to achieve pop stardom and what went almost right along the way – from the perspective of the now 40-something trans femme artist that boy became.
Note from the artistic direction
How to fail becoming a popstar or how to succeed in finding one’s voice, is what Vivek Shraya tells us with a lot of tenderness, humor and vulnerability. By recounting his own journey, Vivek makes us go back in time and allows us, for a moment, to dive back into the outdated style of our favorite 90’s TV shows and music videos.