'Club Kid': NY party scene drama emerges as Oscars outsider
The debut feature earned awards buzz and a rare 100% Rotten Tomatoes score after a Cannes bidding war won by A24.
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A favourite in Cannes, award-winning in Deauville, Jordan Firstman's feature film is a film that we're not close to forgetting.
‘Club Kid’ Parties Hard With a Heavy Heart
“Club Kid” is fun. A simple statement, but one that somehow captures the film’s 122-minute sprawling rager of heartbreak and healing. Jordan Firstman’s debut feature, “Club Kid” centers on Peter (Firstman), a club promoter who is barely holding onto his sanity when he discovers he has a 10-year-old son, Arlo (Reggie Absolom). While “Club Kid”...
'Club Kid': NY party scene drama emerges as Oscars outsider
The debut film from Jordan Firstman became one of the buzziest titles at this year's Cannes Film Festival in May, leading to a bidding war among distributors that was won by US independent film giant A24. It has since won awards at festivals, with expectations steadily built by a string of rave reviews that have handed the movie a rare 100-percent rating on aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Firstman, 35, told AFP in an interview ahead of the f…
Jordan Firstman Opens Up with ‘Club Kid,’ His Hilarious, Tender, and Must-See Feature Filmmaking Debut
[Editor’s note: This interview was originally published during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. A24 will release “Club Kid” in theaters on Friday, November 6.] The official Cannes synopsis for “Club Kid” is almost suspiciously vague: “A washed-up party promoter is forced to turn his life around when an unexpected visitor arrives.” Hmm… Technically, that’s true. But it’s also the kind of carefully evasive logline you can only use if you’re an artis…
For his first feature film, the comedian immerses himself in the world of New York's queer nightlife, where a die-hard clubber must cope with unexpected fatherhood. Hype and cute.
This first feature film by Jordan Firstman is not just a (very) trendy film. It's especially the moving portrait of a thirty-year-old, "underground" party organizer, which turns into a discovery of himself.
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