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Not to be confused with Stephen Starr.

Steven Starr (born 1957) is the producer of FLOW: For Love Of Water, and the founder of Revver.

Background

Steven Starr was born on

Bob Marley & The Wailers
.

Career

After starting in the mail room in 1980, Starr launched the

Kids In The Hall
.

Starr left Morris in 1991 to produce

biopic.[2]

Starr went on to focus full-time on media democratization in 1999, as a co-founder of the Los Angeles

Independent Media Center, and founder/CEO of AntEye.com, a user-generated video site where video creators, voted on by their peers, were awarded micro-pilot budgets in various categories. Despite thousands of submissions and a first-look partnership with HBO
, bandwidth costs were prohibitive, and by mid-2000 AntEye became unsustainable.

Starr then co-founded Uprizer with

Hummer Winblad was named in the Napster
lawsuits, Uprizer re-oriented as an enterprise software solution, Starr and Clarke departed to continue work on Freenet, and Uprizer sold to Redux Holdings.

After the Pacifica Foundation approached Starr to reorganize KPFK, the largest progressive radio signal in the US, he went on to develop ChangeTv in collaboration with John Perry Barlow and Amnesty International ED Jack Healy, a user-generated digital cable network designed to filter online video onto cable and reward creators.

Revver

When financing proved difficult, Starr launched Revver to focus on rewarding online video creators in direct proportion to virality, bringing on Ian Clarke, Andrew Clarke, then Oliver Luckett and Downhill Battle. The Revver beta launched on October 29, 2005. Revver split advertising revenue 50/50 with creators, gave 20% of advertising revenue to syndicators, and enabled content redistribution under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Creative Commons License.

In 2006, Revver was awarded the Most Influential Independent Website by Television Week, nominated for an Advanced Technology Emmy Award,[3] and honored as one of the 100 most promising startups by Red Herring. Revver's creator economy business model forced many sites to begin offering revenue share to creators, including YouTube, and in 2007, Revver announced it had paid out its first million dollars to online creators. In February 2008, Revver was sold to LiveUniverse, which abandoned the creator/syndicator revshare model, starting a precipitous decline in users.

FLOW: For Love Of Water

Starr went on to finalize production of Irena Salina's feature-length global water crisis documentary FLOW: For Love Of Water, and launch a Right To Water campaign to add a 31st article to the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Article31.org. FLOW premiered as a Grand Jury Prize nominee at the 2008

Oscilloscope Labs
in Sept. 2008, and served as an activist tool for the global Right To Water movement.

FLOW was invited to screen for the UN General Assembly on the 60th Anniversary of the signing of the

Suez Environnement
, one of the largest water companies in the world. In 2012, Suez lost on appeal and was forced by the court to pay the filmmakers both legal fees and damages.

The Garden

Starr then executive produced and organized theatrical distribution for the Academy Award-nominated, urban farming documentary The Garden.

CitizenGlobal

Starr joined CitizenGlobal to build a media co-creation platform with a team including

XPrize, Sierra Club, 350.org, Univision, Sesame Street
, Congo Woman's Relief, and others.

Spotlight Expose

After going back to school for a Master's in Spiritual Psychology, Starr broke a lifelong silence to share childhood experiences at

The Fessenden School as the lead of a 2016 Boston Globe Spotlight expose on sexual abuse at 67 boarding schools with hundreds of victims.[5]

Extinction Rebellion

Starr then co-founded XRLA, the Los Angeles Chapter of Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental movement using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.

NooWorld

Starr then launched the climate solidarity network Noo.World as part of the 80x25 Coalition to protect 80% of the Amazon Rainforest by 2025.

Notes

  1. William Morris talent
    agent, Steven Starr spent more than a decade practicing the art of the deal. Now he's practicing the art he used to deal in - with a film about a talent agent. Starr, 35, was head of the film department in Morris' New York office when he quit two years ago to write, direct and produce 'Joey Breaker,' set to open here next month after winning the audience favorite award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.
  2. ^ Bob Marley biopic
  3. ^ "Technology & Engineering Emmy Award Nominees Announced". 2009-04-22. Archived from the original on 2009-04-22. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  4. ^ "Suez's appeal against judgement on the film FLOW rejected by French court | Pambazuka News". www.pambazuka.org. 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  5. ^ "Private schools, painful secrets - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2021-11-07.

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