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Melody C. Roscher's BIRD IN HAND coming 10/2!

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

🚨 New FOFIF Release: Melody C. Roscher's debut feature film BIRD IN HAND; a bride-to-be with a secret agenda returns to her hometown, using her wedding plans to manipulate everyone in her orbit. Starring Alisha Wainwright, Christine Lahti, James Le Gros, Annabelle Dexter-Jones.

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

Truly cannot wait to see this in the cinema with people. 💊🧂

[Nitehawk Cinema @nitehawkcinema]

The Irish folk horror FRÉWAKA screens Tuesday 10/27 at Nitehawk Williamsburg, presented by @thefofif

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

Philly, we're coming! Excited for our first FOFIF screening in the city & that it's for BIRD IN HAND at @BMFI.

Get your tickets friends...
https://t.co/XAEHhTxetP

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

We're back with our friends @BrooklynHorror for the annual mixer (Sunday) and to present/moderate the Polish folk horror film ÒPI Monday night.

🎃 https://t.co/HmfJtG8SOv

[🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker]

In the Guide: a terrible new take on a classic novel, an adventurous biopic, a new doc about Syrian war refugees, a doc about women artists in Paris, three genre mash-up horror films, and an intimate doc by a Palestinian-Mexican-American filmmaker.

Read: https://t.co/kffr3SVGAC

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

In one week, BIRD IN HAND heads to the midwest for screenings at @musicboxtheatre in Chicago (10/23), Heights Theater in Minneapolis (10/25), and @mkefilm in Milwaukee (10/26). All include in person Q&A with the director, Melody C. Roscher!

🎟️ https://t.co/zuQVwt3hRW

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

An absolute high tier banger of Irish folklore. Aislinn Clarke’s 2024 feature, FRÉWAKA is this year's Halloween screening @nitehawkcinema on 10/27. Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh!

https://t.co/5wngLtmfgk

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

Best and most favorite recent film!

[Nitehawk Cinema @nitehawkcinema]

For their Halloween screening this year, @thefofif presents a recent favorite in Irish folklore films, Aislinn Clarke’s FRÉWAKA.

Tuesday 10/27 at Nitehawk Williamsburg with a pre-recorded introduction by Clarke

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

The trailer for BIRD IN HAND is here! Coming to a city near you this month and November...

https://t.co/zuQVwt3PHu

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

MEDUSA!

[🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker]

In this week's Directed By Women Viewing Guide: several anti-fascist and anti-colonial docs, the Cinema Femme Short Film Festival, a subtly queer coming-of-age film, a new romantic drama, and a spooky Brazilian film

Read: https://t.co/j1n5sy0R2H

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

See you this weekend Los Angeles! BIRD IN HAND is at Vidiots Friday - Sunday with Q&As, special guest, and us!

https://t.co/ohTMGo4x44

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

LOOOOOVE this film.

[🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker]

“A big part of making this film was trying to process what it was like to be a teenager from a small town, leaving for university, and meeting my community of friends & queers & artists”

I spoke with Paloma Schneideman about BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY

Read: https://t.co/0C0UaD4DPy

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

"A tonally tricky and inherently personal tale that pays off handsomely." Melody C. Roscher on Refusing to Go the Easy Route in BIRD IN HAND:

Coming to LA this weekend and Chicago/Minneapolis/Milwaukee next weekend!

https://t.co/l1HdCj42Sw

[🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker]

Must-Watch Indies returns to FACETS Chicago October 15th - 25th featuring a cadre of modern horrors: Maya Annik Bedward's BLACK ZOMBIE, Nicolas Winding Refn's HER PRIVATE HELL, and Jane Schoenbrun's TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA

Tickets: https://t.co/477dD2NlZZ

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

Bringing Bird on home to Brooklyn - see you tonight!

https://t.co/PhX1LStUAg

[Nitehawk Cinema @nitehawkcinema]

The new @thefofif release BIRD IN HAND screens Monday at Nitehawk Williamsburg, followed by a Q&A with writer/director Melody C. Roscher & actress Christine Lahti

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

Afternoon plans: seeing BIRD IN HAND @RoxyCinemaNYC today (3pm) with Melody C. Roscher, Christine Lahti and Libby Ewing. Plus a love story with a bull (short film). Support indies!

https://t.co/p4CXqdPRkE

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Opens tonight!
https://t.co/zuQVwt3hRW

[RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices]

"Its tone–authentically volatile, absurd, yet enlightening–matches its display that broken families are not entirely damned."

@peytondani reviews BIRD IN HAND: https://t.co/jllxxyV8Tm

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

A must read: Melody C. Roscher's beautiful text about how the BIRD OF HAND was born out of the personal!

[Talkhouse @Talkhouse]

The poignant backstory to Melody C. Roscher's #BirdInHand

https://t.co/Shf7B4iIXO

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

BIRD IN HAND alongside JENNIFER'S BODY? Perfection. The former opens TONIGHT @RoxyCinemaNYC before heading to @nitehawkcinema, Community Theater, Vidiots, @am_cinematheque, @musicboxtheatre and many more. See you there!

https://t.co/zuQVwt3hRW

[🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker]

In the Guide: a biting new comedy, a spooky feminist fable, a lesbian and anti-fascist classic, a cringe relationship dramedy, a short film about the foibles of parenthood, a millennial cult horror classic, & an intimate doc about Mexico/Palestine.

Read: https://t.co/Un81VKh4uM

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

Queens

[The Future of Film is Female @TheFOFIF]

We started an entire DIY distribution arm precisely because there are SO MANY great films out there in need of getting out into the world. And we can't keep up.

[The Ankler @TheAnkler]

Indie film has a strange new problem: Buyers are hungry, and audiences are showing up. There just aren’t enough movies to buy. Ashley Cullins talks to top dealmakers about what’s driving the shortage and what could fix it: https://t.co/Hefac0vYPk