​A new monthly edition of short films curated by Edward Frumkin and William George-Louis

​All-Starrs is a monthly screening series centering around shorts and mid-lengths at Bushwick's finest Starr Bar. Curated by Edward Frumkin and William George-Louis, All Starrs highlights all types of moving-image art and is open to what a "film" can be. Unlike most short screenings, the Q&As at All-Starrs happen after each short is screened instead of a big group session after all the films are played.

​This September edition of All-Starrs splashes into comedy, experimental, nonfiction, and narrative territories. The majority of this month's cohort will have major screenings at institutions such as Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Film at Lincoln Center (FilmLinc) and are going present some rarely screened shorts with us for one night only in the lead-up to these career milestones.

​Tickets $10 - $15 sliding scale

​​Program

​8:00 pm - Doors

​8:30 - 8:40 pm - Screening Begins

​10:30 pm - 10:45 pm - Finish

​Films

​Caterina (2019); directed and written by Dan Sallitt

​How to Play (2022); directed by Heather Landsman

​Jaaji Approx. (2015); directed by Sky Hopinka

​Stalin Boys (2026); directed by Bianca Giaever and Ora DeKornfeld

​Star Diner (2026); co-written by and starring Mary Neely

​Yeah Man (2026); directed by Jayson-James Sloan and starring Steph Marc

​​Curators

​Edward Frumkin (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based film personality and the host of the webseries Making Movies Today. He has written for outlets such as The Daily Beast, IndieWire, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Interview Magazine, Reverse Shot, and more. His recent short film, Rap World Day, made its world premiere at 2025 Chicago Underground Film Fest, the world's longest running underground film festival. He co-runs the monthly screening series, All-Starrs, at Bushwick's Starr Bar and served on the screening committees at festivals such as True/False, Big Sky Documentary, Camden. He has also been featured on Errands, Gaydar, Hollywood IQ, Revival of the Fittest, and Subway Takes.

​William George-Louis (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, producer, actor and editor. He also co-curates and co-hosts a monthly screening series "All-Starrs" at Starr Bar in Bushwick. Films he's produced have played at SXSW, Tribeca, Champs-Élysées, Fantasia, Mar del Plata, Hamptons International and many others. You can currently watch Leah Shore's "Puss" streaming on the Criterion Channel which William produced.

​​Filmmakers

​Bianca Giaever (she/her) is an Emmy-winning director, radio producer, and writer. Her work for brands including JetBlue and Google leverage her multi-disciplinary style to tell intimate, surprising stories. She is the creator and host of the podcast Constellation Prize, distributed by The Believer Magazine. She has also worked as a producer on The New York Times audio team, hosting episodes of The Daily that include Delilah, An Obituary for the Land, and Cosmic Questions. Her film, radio, and print stories have appeared on This American Life, Radiolab, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Believer Magazine, and the TED conference. Her awards include a Daytime Emmy and a Webby Award.

​Bianca’s blend of image and voice and music is elegant; audio drives the story, but the pictures make it sing. Her style is surprising, charming, and sophisticated. In 2013, her short The Scared is Scared won the internet’s heart, and since then she’s worked on many video collaborations, most recently with This American Life and the fashion designer Rachel Antonoff.

​Her work has been featured in NPR’s This American Life and Radiolab, websites such as Buzzfeed, Jezebel, FastCo, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, CBS News, and Short of the Week, at various film festivals, and at the TED conference. She attended Middlebury College, where she designed her own major called “Narrative Studies,” and graduated in the class of 2012. She teaches storytelling workshops, gives talks, and is a Future of Storytelling fellow. Originally from Seattle, she now lives in Brooklyn.

​Ora DeKornfeld is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who began her career as a video journalist at The New York Times. She now directs, shoots, and edits documentary films that resist easy answers — morally complicated, human-scaled, and often funny in the places you don't expect.

DeKornfeld directed the Emmy-nominated short USA v SCOTT (Tribeca 2020, The New Yorker); STALIN BOYS (SXSW 2024), winner of both the Audience Award and Special Jury Prize; and THE GRANDFATHER PUZZLE (Full Frame 2026), winner of the Audience Award. She shot and edited Isabel Castro's MIJA (Sundance 2022) and was a co-editor on Elizabeth Lo's MISTRESS DISPELLER.

She has directed multiple episodes of the Netflix Original Explained and is currently in production on her first feature film following journalistic fixers in Mexico.

​Sky Hopinka (he/him; Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and Palm Springs, California. In Portland, Oregon he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and non fiction forms of media.

​His work has played at various festivals including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival. His work was a part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2018 FRONT Triennial, the 2021 edition of Prospect.5, and the 14th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea and the Göteborg International Biennial in Switzerland in 2023. His films, videos, and photographs are in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany, The Whitney Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center amongst others.

​He was a guest curator at the 2019 Whitney Biennial and has had solo exhibitions at the Center for Curatorial Studies–Bard College in 2020, at LUMA in Arles, France in 2022, and in 2024 at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA and Kunsthalle Friart in Switzerland.

​He was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2018- 2019, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow for 2019, an Art Matters Fellow in 2019, a recipient of a 2020 Herb Alpert Award for Film/Video, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and was a 2021 Forge Project Fellow.  He received the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography, is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow and was a winner of the 2023 Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel.  He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is an assistant professor in the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University.

​Born in suburban New Jersey and currently based in New York, Heather Landsman (she/her)'s formative experiences of endlessly watching genre cinema, growing up on turn-of-the-millennium video games, and having unfiltered access to the internet have fostered a singular filmmaking career. As a trans filmmaker under the school of thought that cinema is a medium of pure sensory experience, Heather gravitates towards stories told through digital experimentation, decrepit locales, meta narrative, and more.

Having graduated from Emerson College while working as an intern/production assistant for Blumhouse, A24, Apple TV+, and Ghost House Pictures, Landsman has written, directed, edited and produced numerous films, including a feature length archival documentary titled The Best of Me. Premiering at Spectacle, Roxy Cinema, WHAMMY! Analog Media, Dancing Fireman Pictures, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, PhilaMOCA, and the Plaza Theatre in 2025, the film chronicles the final days of the Bjork stalker, Ricardo Lopez. The documentary’s success led Heather to being included in 2025’s Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces of Independent Film list.

Landsman’s newest short, ee, will make its NY premiere at the 2026 New York Film Festival. She is also currently in production on her narrative feature debut, >YOU HAVE BEEN DISCONNECTED.

​Steph Marc (he/him) is a Haitian American comedy entity from Queens, NY who is something of a myth.

​Mary Neely (she/her) is a bold, multi-hyphenate voice in film, TV, and digital culture - an actor, writer, director, and producer with a knack for turning chaos into comedy and raw emotion into unforgettable stories. She first captured widespread attention with her viral pandemic-era musical videos, and being named “Best Theater of 2020” by The New York Times and The Washington Post. Mary co-wrote and stars in the feature film Or Something, now streaming on MUBI. Other film/television credits include Swiped; Valley Girl; Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile; Happiness for Beginners; and “Law & Order: SVU.” Recently, Neely made her debut on Broadway as Letta in the 2026 revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

​A Pennsylvania native who has been based in New York since 1992, Dan Sallitt (he/him) first began looking at movies closely and writing scripts while a student at Harvard. He received a screenwriting MFA from UCLA, and then worked as a staff critic at the Los Angeles Reader. In 1987, he switched tracks, taking up a technical position in the computer industry, and he has since used his savings from such day jobs to fund his modestly budgeted projects. Sallitt would go on to win the award for Best Screenplay at the 2021 Gotham Independent Film Awards for his film, Fourteen (2019). His newest film, What Can’t Be Mentioned, a spiritual follow-up toThe Unspeakable Act (2012), will have its world premiere at the 2026 New York Film Festival.

​Jayson-James Sloan (he/him) is a filmmaker based in New York City. His work has screened at MoMA, Nowadays, SVA Theatre, and Millenium Film Workshop. He is a member of the alternative cinema series Ditchers Eddy and the programming committee at Millennium Film Workshop.