After starting in the mail room in 1980, Starr launched the William Morris Agency new media division, packaged TV series and screenplays, then headed the New York Motion Picture department under Sue Mengers.
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.
FLOW was released theatrically by Oscilloscope Labs in Sept. 2008, and served as an activist tool for the global Right To Water movement.
On July 28, 2010, a resolution presented by Bolivia and co-sponsored by 35 countries, called on the General Assembly to recognize the Right To Water.
In 2010, a French court rejected a defamation lawsuit[4] against FLOW brought by Suez Environnement, one of the largest water companies in the world.
[5] 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.