BROTHER VS. BROTHER
(Feature Film)

Producers: Michelle Stratton/Starr Sutherland
Writer/Director: Ari Gold

World Premiere SXSW 2025
"After a manic musician promises to fix his depressed twin's life by nightfall, they hunt the streets for love and a paying gig, while secretly hoping to locate their father, a 99-year-old poet who may be dying. Filmed in a single shot to evoke a real-time safari through the streets and bars of Beatnik San Francisco, “Brother Verses Brother” is a one-of-a-kind musical tale about the bonds of family and the liberating power of music.

Featuring The Brothers Gold, Jazz singer Lara Louise, Brian Bell (Weezer), San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen- Martin, & 99-year-old Herbert Gold, “the last of the Beat poets." 

TURN LEFT:
The Story of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

Producer/Director: Starr Sutherland

This documentary is about the values, people, and the atmosphere that have animated City Lights over seven decades. How does a place born of the ideals of Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kerouac, and Corso survive in a literary world overtaken by Amazon, Kindle and Google? Will the social networks replace the local bookstore as a gathering place for the arts? And how can City Lights continue to push the boundaries of progressive politics in what is becoming an ever more fractious world?