​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 August edition of All-Starrs dabbles into comedy, drama, horror, music video, and nonfiction. We hope you can join us for this remarkable evening.

​Tickets $10 - $15 sliding scale

​Program

​8:00 pm - Doors

​9:00 pm - Screening Begins

​10:45 pm - 11:00 pm - Finish

​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, R,evival 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

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​Clare Austen-Smith (she/her) is stand-up comedian and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. She’s featured for Jaboukie Young-White, Jo Firestone, Elliot Morgan, and Joel McHale. In Chicago, she's performed at the Laugh Factory, Second City, Zanies, and hosted a residency at the DIY staple The Hideout. In New York, you can usually find her at Union Hall or Rodeo, the best natural wine bar to do comedy in. She’s been a performer at Lady Laughs Festival (Madison, WI), The Chicago Improv Festival, The Onion Comedy & Arts Festival, the Cream City Comedy Festival (Milwaukee, WI), The Las Culturistas Live Show (Chicago), New York Comedy Fest, Don’t Tell Comedy, and Butterboy (New York). Her written work has been published in The New Yorker, The Belladonna, and Bustle.com. Her comedic shorts have been recognized in Tiny Film Fest, the Portland Comedy Film Festival, and exhibited at the Museum of Museums in Seattle, WA. In addition to her work in comedy, she produced the 2016 short doc Uninsurable and co-directed the 2025 narrative short The Release.

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​Block (he/him) has always broken boundaries while setting standards for commercial and critical success, but it’s his willingness to be authentic, intimate, and intelligent in his work—and his life—that has set him apart. From his first underground cult-hit record which helped launch the New York anti-folk movement of the late 1990’s, to his Glen Ballard-produced Capitol Records debut, to the four-part 2025 deluxe-edition reissuing of his storied catalog, and now this new record, his influence can be felt in every corner of modern indie, folk-punk, and lo-fi songwriting, alongside contemporaries Regina Spektor, Beck, The Moldy Peaches, and Ani DiFranco.

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​Henry Chaisson (he/him) is a director, screenwriter and composer whose previous writing work includes Searchlight’s supernatural horror film ANTLERS, produced by Guillermo del Toro, as well as episodes of M. Night Shyamalan’s SERVANT. His debut feature as writer/director, RECLUSE (starring Xander Berkeley, Toby Poser, Mia Vallet, Kimball Farley and Sasha Frolova) is currently in post-production. He was raised in Massachusetts and holds a degree in music performance and composition from Brown University.

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​Mariales Diaz (they/them) is a gender-expansive Dominican writer, director, and producer living in New York. Their storytelling explores experiences that exist at the intersection of survival and love. They most recently produced the documentary short Still Waters, which premiered at BlackStar Film Festival and won its Audience Award for Best Documentary Short. It later played festivals including Indie Memphis, Doc NYC, Hot Docs, and SFFILM and has been acquired by POV. Diaz has worked on the production and post-archival teams at companies such as Pilgrim Media Group, Religion of Sports, HBO Max, and Proximity Media. They are a graduate of the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory, a 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow, a 2019 Creative Culture Fellow, and a 2019 NeXt Doc Fellow. Diaz is currently associate producing the documentary feature What the Pier Gave Us. Their newest film, Today & TMRW, world premiered at the 2026 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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​Sofia Dobrushin (she/they) is a Brooklyn based, Bay Area raised multidisciplinary artist with a focus in comedy and film. After graduating with a BFA in Acting and an additional concentration in Directing, Sofia booked a role on one of her favorite TV Shows: HBO's High Maintenance. This kismet moment has led to a pipeline of opportunities on stage, on screen, and behind the scenes. Sofia completed an Ars Nova Residency CAMP (Comedy Artist Makers Program) in 2023 developing original comedic work with her collaborator Catherine Bloom. Sofia's directing work has been the official selection of Brooklyn Women's Film Festival, Austin Comedy Short Film Festival, New Filmmakers Festival, and Nobudge. Some of Sofia’s additional on screen work includes: Tina Fey’s Mean Girls (2024), Mary Dautermans Booger (2023), Apple TV’s WeCrashed (2022). Dobrushin continues to work as a director, actor, and creative producer to uplift Queer, BIPOC and female centered stories.

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​Jard Lerebours (He/They) is a NY-based Queer-Black magician in the tradition of Djibril Diop Mambéty. Their practice straddles the worlds of autofiction, cinema and video art. Lerebours approaches filmmaking as a conversation between friends and family guided by their communal West Indian upbringing. He is an active member of the Meerkat Media Artist Collective, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and Millennium Film Workshop’s Programming Committee.

​Lerebours’s film work includes the Babylon Red Trilogy which consists of the short films Pandrog, Coconut and Zion. The trilogy explores gender, masculinity, Rastafarianism, Buddhism and notions of home. His films have been showcased internationally by Atlanta Film Festival, New York African Film Festival, Third Horizon, Film Diary NYC, Indie Memphis Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Uppsala International Short Film Festival and Out on Film.

​Lerebours's written work has been published in Office Magazine, Forgotten Lands, Crater Magazine, 032C, Fortunately Mag and AFM. In his free time, Lerebours enjoys hating on white supremacy, hissing his teeth and learning Haitian recipes. At Bemis, Lerebours will work on himself.

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​Mia Vallet (she/her) is an actor living in New York City. As a company member and frequent performer at the exciting NYC “loft theaters” Adult Film and The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, her credits include The Seagull, By Morning, Foosball and the 2026 Tribeca selection Recluse.

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​Pacho Velez (he/him) is a nonfiction filmmaker born and raised in NYC. His last feature, They’re Here (2024, co-directed with Dan Claridge) looks at UFO experiencers and the desire for transcendence in Upstate New York. It premiered at Tribeca before going on to play many festivals including Hots Docs (Toronto), Cucalorus (Wilmington, NC) and SXSW Australia (Sydney).

​His prior film, Searchers (2021), is a portrait of The Big Apple as seen through the eyes of lovers navigating the internet in search of intimacy. The film premiered at Sundance before going on to play at many festivals around the world. Pacho also directed The American Sector (2020, co-directed with Courtney Stephens), which premiered at the Berlinale. The New Yorker critic Richard Brody included on his list of the best films of 2021.

​Pacho’s earlier features include The Reagan Show (Tribeca 2017, co-directed with Sierra Pettengill) and Manakamana (2013, co-directed with Stephanie Spray). They have played around the world, including at the New York Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Sydney International Film Festival. Manakamana won a Golden Leopard in the Filmmakers of the Present competition at the Locarno International Film Festival (2013).

​Pacho also produced the features Realm of Satan (Sundance 2024, directed by Scott Cummings) and Some Kind of Heaven (Sundance 2020, directed by Lance Oppenheim). He received his MFA in film production from Calarts. At present, he is an assistant professor of screen studies at The New School (NYC).