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

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🚨 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.

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TONIGHT IN CHICAGO at @musicboxtheatre!

https://t.co/hoIpaW5gec

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

https://t.co/zuQVwt3PHu

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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

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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

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LOOOOOVE this film.

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“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

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"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

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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

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Bringing Bird on home to Brooklyn - see you tonight!

https://t.co/PhX1LStUAg

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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

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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