Director Melody C. Roscher will join us via ZOOM for a Q&A
Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright) takes a trip to visit her hippie mom, Carlotta (Christine Lahti), at her lush, rural house with exciting news of upcoming nuptials. Eager to find a venue, the two scour the area for a potential home for the wedding. But all isn’t as it seems as the young bride-to-be is actually on the hunt for something else entirely. Enter mom’s new neighbors: beguiling couple Dennis (James Le Gros) and Leigh (Annabelle Dexter-Jones). As Bird and Dennis hit it off, the trip leads to hijinks and lustful decisions that upend the lives of all involved.
Melody C. Roscher takes the helm for her directorial feature debut, bringing vibrance and depth to a film that equally balances farcical entanglements with nuanced conversations about history and legacy. The relationship between Wainwright and Lahti leaps off the screen, inviting the audience into a space ripe for meaningful excavation of the sometimes frayed but indescribable bonds between parents and children–
Melody C. Roscher’s debut feature film as a writer and director, Bird in Hand, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in the US Competition category. The film is preceded by a companion short film that she wrote and directed, White Wedding, that premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Her writing and directing work comes after years of producing film, television, and commercial work. Some notable projects include Borderline Films’ Christine, James White, Simon Killer, and Martha Marcy May Marlene. For these works she was nominated for two Independent Spirit awards including Best First Feature for James White, and Piaget Producer’s Award for Christine. Other producer credits include Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Catherine, starring Jenny Slate, and Robin Comisar’s Great Choice.
Melody hails from both New York City and Richmond, Virginia where she now resides. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
