The writer-director-star shot his feature debut in real New York clubs, cast a British kid he’d never met and bet his opening scene on a Rihanna song he didn’t have the rights to — now he’s in the Un Certain Regard lineup.

The 126-minute film, which premiered in the festival’s Un Certain Regard selection, casts Firstman as a washed-up party promoter who is forced to turn his life around when an…

Jordan Firstman's wild, raunchy directorial debut, 'Club Kid,' got the party started at its Cannes Film Festival premiere.