A Trans-media docu-drama exploring the journey from insignificance to Rockstar. Anterockstar chronicles the triumphs and tribulations of independent musicians in Oshawa, and the Greater Toronto Area. Promising to strip the PR sheen off your television screen, videographer and aspiring “rockstar” Tamara LeClair uncovers the unvarnished reality hiding behind the raw performances of her subjects, and exposes herself to unimaginable risk as she continues to doggedly pursue a public career, politicking her way into the headlines.
Through an Intimate lens AnteRockstar exposes the blood sweat and tears masked by the capitalization of the idolatrous myth of the mainstream media of sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll.
Set against the backdrop of the personal story of the average woman’s pursuit of a professional career in the performing arts; controversy and stigma quickly steal the limelight from her focused attempts at vocal prowess. Anterockstar began as a webcast intended as a measured response to reality television trends, and has evolved to a compound analysis of the impact of media on music, and the people who consume it.
AnteRockstar originally premiered on on www.phyte.ca and promoted on www.youtube.com since June 2006. AnteRockstar was Migrated to it’s own branded platform www.anterockstar.com in 2008, and taken down in fall 2011, and again redeployed in 2016
[now on www.anterockstar.com]
English