Blue Harbor Entertainment announced today that writer-director Adam Finberg’s sci-fi drama-thriller Star People will debut internationally on select digital platforms beginning March 27, including Apple TV in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa, and Amazon Prime Video in the United Kingdom.
On March 13, 1997, thousands of people across Arizona witnessed one of the largest mass UFO sightings in recorded history — a phenomenon now known as the Phoenix Lights. Inspired by that event, Star People, an atmospheric, character-driven sci-fi drama written and directed by Arizona native Adam Finberg, follows Claire (Kat Cunning), a photographer obsessed with her childhood UFO sighting. When a promising tip draws her deep into the desert during a deadly heatwave, accompanied by her troubled brother and opportunistic boyfriend, what begins as a relentless search for answers becomes something far more personal, as the mysteries above collide with fractured bonds below.
Last fall (2025), Star People was featured in The New York Times as one of its “Five Sci-Fi Films to Stream Now,” with the article praising the film and noting: “Star People is about the stories we need to tell ourselves to survive in an unsettled world.” The film holds an 80% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Star People had its World Premiere as an Official Selection of Dances With Films: LA on June 28 at the TCL Chinese Theatre, followed by a U.S. theatrical release on July 25 in New York, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, and a U.S. VOD release on August 12.
Star People marks Finberg’s narrative feature directorial debut and stars Kat Cunning (The Deuce, On Swift Horses), McCabe Slye (Destroyer, Fear Street Trilogy), Connor Paolo (The Last Stop in Yuma County, Gossip Girl), Eddie Martinez (The Sinner, Night Swim), Bradley Fisher (Westworld), and Adriana Aluna Martinez (Duster).
Star People was produced by Adam Finberg and Josh Shader.
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Blue Harbor Entertainment is a boutique distributor of independent films that was conceived as a much-needed alternative in today’s challenging distribution environment. Established in 2023 by industry veterans Amanda Sherwin, Mike Messina and Seth Needle, and with a combined experience spanning hundreds of films, Blue Harbor empowers filmmakers by providing a comprehensive distribution and marketing solution covering theatrical release, digital distribution to transactional, subscription and ad-supported streaming services, television, and home video. Notable releases include the hit indie romantic comedy A Nice Indian Boy, starring Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff, the award-winning, untold story of Dr. Audrey Evans, Audrey's Children, starring Natalie Dormer, Lilly, the powerful story of equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter starring Patricia Clarkson, and director Olivia Kuan’s award-winning documentary The Herricanes about The Houston Herricanes, a team that was part of the groundbreaking first women’s full tackle football league of the 1970s. Recent theatrical releases include the sports documentary Luv Ya Bum! about legendary NFL coach Bum Phillips and the sci-fi thriller Star People starring Kat Cunning.