Starflower Film. located in Portland, Maine, USA, is the sole proprietorship of producer/director Charles Kaufmann. He took this photo of a Starflower to use as the logo for Starflower Film. Starflowers appear each spring as one of Maine's first woodland wildflowers.
Charles Kaufmann is an award-winning writer, historian, filmmaker, composer and the founding director of The Longfellow Chorus, a professional non-profit performing arts organization in Portland, Maine. He has given lecture-screenings of his feature-length documentary "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900–1912,” at Oberlin Conservatory; Boston University African-American Studies; Yale-Norfolk Festival; SUNY Buffalo; Georgetown University; Colour of Music Black Classical Musicians Festival, Charlestown, South Carolina; and Pasadena City College. His short documentary, “That's None of My Business,” about the attempt on November 1, 1963, by two youthful civil rights activists to desegregate a concert by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Jackson, Mississippi, was premiered in January 2022 in-theatre at Music for Galway (a music festival in Ireland), and screened in March 2022 at the Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, Mississippi, and in November 2022 at the North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival, Fargo, North Dakota.