BIRD IN HAND Screening + Panel and Mixer with Film's Director and Producers

About

Fusion Film Festival's exciting Fall event: BIRD IN HAND Screening followed by a Q&A panel and Mixer with the filmmaker and producers! We cannot wait for you to see this bitingly comic feature film debut that weaves themes of race, belonging, and family into Bird’s mercurial journey back to herself.

When: Friday, November 6 · 7:00PM

Where: Tisch Theater 006, 721 Broadway

FREE Admission, Open to all NYU students, faculty, & staff! · RSVP Required, FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE!

Enjoy a screening of the feature debut film BIRD IN HAND written & directed by NYU Tisch Alum Melody C. Roscher (UGFTV 2006) who will be with us for a Q&A along with a panel of the film's producers who are also all UGFTV Alums with incredible credits:

~Danielle Massie, Producer/ Development Exec Park Pictures (UGFTV 2014)

~Craig Shilowich, Producer (UGFTV 2006)

Panel Moderated by Caryn Coleman, Film Programmer & Founder of The Future of Film is Female who are distributing the film.

About BIRD IN HAND:

Written & Directed by: Melody C. Roscher

Starring: Alisha Wainwright, Christine Lahti, James Le Gros, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Jeffrey Nordling, K. Todd Freeman

Runtime: 90 min

Release Date: 2026

LOGLINE: A bride-to-be with a secret agenda returns to her hometown, using her wedding plans to manipulate everyone in her orbit.

SYNOPSIS:

Inspired by Roscher’s own biracial experience, BIRD IN HAND follows the newly engaged Bird Rowe (Alisha Wainwright) as she returns to her rural hometown to plan the wedding with her narcissistic hippie mother Carlotta (Christine Lahti). Bird also has a hidden agenda, one that leads her to her mother's new neighbors, a misguided couple on a mission to 'rebrand' a plantation. Truth, lies, and fantasy collide against that backdrop, leading to a surprising climax as tender as it is funny.