New Me – dir. Chico Bennett

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: New Me

Director’s Name: Chico Bennett

Writer’s Name: Chico Bennett

Producer: Star Soltan

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 24 seconds

Film Description:

Star2 is a new man in this over-the-top music video “New Me,” which features performances from Soulja Boy and Luh Kel, directed by Chico Bennett and filmed by Hector Toro. Set in a sleek, multi-million-dollar, ultra-modern mansion with two Lamborghinis and a white Rolls Royce Cullinan SUV in the driveway, Star2 hosts a pool party with a backyard full of frolicking, thong-wearing beauties…spraying whipped cream on each other, splashing Luh Kel and Star2 in a Jacuzzi filled with $100 bills, and twerking beside Big Draco in his orange Lambo.
Star2’s new life includes living female “statues” adorning his hallways, and sexy French maids in fishnet stocking who feed him grapes and greet guests… including showing guest Soulja Boy to his in-house strip-club, “Club Star2” where Soulja and Star2 enjoy a private show and fire money guns filled with “Star2 Dollars” at the dancers.
An angry neighbor, who’s not too thrilled with his rap neighbor (Star2) appears at the beginning, but is later co-opted into the debauchery, getting lifted in the air by the sexy sirens. Bathing beauty Courtney Heagle is a standout in an orange and leopard bi-color bikini.
Star2 holds his own with veteran Soulja Boy and St. Louis R&B crooner and pretty-boy Luh Kel, who is releasing an EP with Star2 in 2024.
The song opens with a boisterous string section and chronicles Star2’s journey from rags to riches, “Back when I was broke, they didn’t even know me. Now I’m poppin’ like hella bitches love me…”
Says Star2, “making this song with Soulja Boy and Luh Kel was unreal. The set was lit with beautiful women, water-gun fights, whipped cream and hella dope cars.” Eyeing yet another thonged beauty walking past the pool Star2 notes, “this is every man’s dream.”
Indeed, Star2 began his life in a refugee camp in Thailand, abandoned by his teen-aged mother fleeing genocide from the Burmese army in Myanmar who, attacked their village and burned it to the ground. A lottery in the camp resulted in his passage to San Diego with his grandmother and her four children.
Star2’s new me began in San Diego as a young child and has continued into a promising hip hop career as a young adult.