Starlight Media is a multifaceted entertainment company that makes premium content in all forms, while serving as an industry-leading proponent of multicultural representation and diversity.

Founded in 2012 by CEO Peter Luo, Starlight Media went public with an IPO in 2017 through Starlight Culture Entertainment Group Limited, and currently focuses on producing powerful, innovative and diverse visual narratives that sit at the intersection of prestige and global commercial appeal. With a diverse-minded approach to content creation, Starlight has the capacity to develop, package, finance and produce a broad array of films for worldwide distribution, and serves as a catalyst for highly elevated projects suited for major studios, networks and streamers.

The platform agnostic philosophy adopted by Starlight mirrors the growing disruption in the entertainment business and evolving audience consumption habits, leading to expanded creative endeavors that include animation (short and long form), short features, mobile-first content, VR/AR/XR content, and other experimental visual art forms and mediums. Starlight is a company that embraces disruption and champions innovation.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, while maintaining an office in Hong Kong, Starlight is uniquely suited to bridge the U.S. and Chinese entertainment industries and takes a transmedia approach to seeding and developing IP and collaborating with content creators around the world to bring innovative entertainment properties to audiences globally, producing and investing in a wide array of projects.

Starlight’s success to date has been rooted in the company’s ability to foster relationships with top creative talent (including actors, writers, and directors) and studio partners. Starlight seeks to champion creative talent with likeminded visions of creating exceptional cross-cultural content that can be enjoyed universally. This mandate is exemplified by development and production deals the company has set with A-list filmmakers such as Robert Zemeckis, Sam Raimi, Sylvester Stallone, James Wan, F. Gary Gray, Roland Emmerich, Jon M. Chu, Alan Taylor, Jonathan Liebesman, Nattawut Poonpiriya and Bryan Singer, whose collective global box office earnings eclipse $30 billion.

Starlight has quickly evolved into a finance and production operation that is amongst the most active in the industry and will continue to elevate its deal making to ensure the best projects make it to the big screen, with the right partners. From providing development funding to arranging production financing and producing projects from start to finish, Starlight supports creatives who share a vision of diverse voices and faces populating the screens.

Since launching in 2015, Starlight has been involved in a wide range of critically and commercially successful films including “Marshall,” directed by Reginald Hudlin and starring Chadwick Boesman; John Chu’s “Crazy Rich Asians”, a global hit that proved films with a predominantly Asian cast can achieve massive box office success; the sci/fi horror hit “Greta”, directed by Neil Jordan and starring Chloe Grace Moretz; “Midway”, the WWII action/drama starring Woody Harrelson, Patrick Wilson, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore, and Luke Evans; and the horror/mystery/thriller “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” from Guillermo del Toro.

While continuing to disrupt and innovate, Starlight further empowers emerging forces, integrating them into diverse content that the company brings to audiences hungry for experiences that inspire, intrigue and transform. The number of directors supported by Starlight is growing as the company commits to backing emerging talent, believing that diversity will fuel growth for future generations. To that end, the company’s newest program (‘Stars Collective’) helps to promote the next generation of diverse voices and creative storytellers, and really accelerate the female power movement. The ‘Stars Collective’ program supports up to 50 emerging filmmakers, paving the way for new aesthetics driven by top young creative talent and powerful female voices.

Starlight maintains flexibility in sourcing projects and material while collaborating with various partners to build a diverse slate. However, a core tenet of the company’s business strategy is showcasing and championing diversity – both on the screen, and behind the camera.

Projects the company gravitates to are different, meaningful, moving, entertaining and commercially viable. At Starlight, a creative, international-minded team works together to embolden creators and find new ways to tell stories.