The film follows on chronologically from 2015's Big Gold Dream, also directed by Grant McPhee, with its title taken from The Vaselines song "Teenage Superstars".
Broadly speaking, it is chronologically structured, while also tracing the geographical and social connections between some of the bands (for example, the childhood friendship of Sean Dickson, Duglas T. Stewart and Norman Blake, all from Bellshill).
"[1] Teenage Superstars premiered on 22 June 2017 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival,[2] where it was nominated for the Audience Award and Best Documentary,[3] going on to show at Raindance in September of that year.
Teenage Superstars has received generally positive reviews, including 4 out of 5 stars in both The List[5] and The Skinny,[6] with The Herald calling it "a real treat for music fans".
[7] It received its cinema premiere in 2018 at the Glasgow Film Festival[8] and was part of the National Museum of Scotland's 2018 "Rip It Up" exhibition, screening at Edinburgh's Filmhouse.