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This is What the World Looks Like
When You're Gone

When we lose someone the world ticks on just the same,
but for those left behind everything is entirely changed.

Writer/Director: Steen Starr
Editor: Olya Glotka
Release: 2023

AWARDS
 Best Documentary + Audience Choice 3rd Place
Women Over Fifty Film Festival, UK 2023

Shorts Not Pants LaurelsInt'l Experimental FF, LaurelsBest Documentary Laurelsfestival laurelsBrighton Rocks Festival Laurelshonorable mention laurel
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Older Than What?

12 seniors respond to 10 questions about aging and share stories about how they made history.

Writer/Director: Steen Starr
Editor: Cecilio Escobar
Release: 2017
AWARDS
 International Short Film Competition
Asterisco Festival Internacionale de Cine LGBTIQ, 2017
Gold Award, Documentary Category
South Georgian Bay Film Festival, 2018
Audience Award, Best Documentary Short
Paris International Lesbian Feminist Film Festival, 2018
Audience Award, Best Short
USNExpo, Sardinia Queer Short Film Festival, 2018
JURY COMMENDATION: Best Documentary
Women Over Fifty Film Festival, 2020
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Putting the "I" in Trans

Trans identities shunted off track by a typo.

Writer/Director: Steen Starr
Camera/Editing: Tanya Murdoch
Release: 2012

AWARDS
Best GenderBender Short
Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, 2012
Audience Award
Short Shorts Film Festival, 2015

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