At Adrienne's Flowers, we believe in the power of flowers to evoke emotion, celebrate life's milestones, and offer comfort in times of need. Ostroy: I'd always thought those conversations were truly remarkable in terms of how a very young child struggled to understand the incomprehensible subjects of death, murder, loss and grief through various stages of her emotional development. But since I didn't have footage of those conversations—just the verbatim dialogue—I felt that animating them would illustrate Sophie's journey in a very poignant, cinematic way. And maybe when he goes to bed at night and lies his head down and stares at the ceiling, he thinks about that, and it makes him feel something that he didn’t feel before.”

Sarachan: The creation of this film seems like it must have been a harrowing process for you. How did you deal with having to revisit this story? Were you ever able to separate your work on the film from your daily life? We understand that each moment in life is unique, and so are the preferences and sentiments that accompany them. That's why, at Adriennes Flowers, we take pride in our ability to craft bespoke arrangements tailored to your requirements .. Our team of skilled florists combine artistry with a deep love for nature to bring your floral dreams to life. Andy Ostroy: Her unique ability to blend comedy and drama. Tonally, that's not easy to pull off. But she was a master at it. 'Happy/sad' defines her work, and it's also how she defined her life. She also was steadfast in executing her vision and never compromised what she wanted to achieve through her work. As an artist, she had a truly unique voice and a powerfully feminist message, and she fought hard in a pre-#MeToo world to ensure it ended up on-screen. Ostroy, a first-time director, set out to answer three questions: who was Adrienne Shelly, what really happened the day she died, and what was it like for a family to live through unthinkable tragedy?

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Ostroy: The only thing I can say is that I always knew Adrienne was deeply and universally loved and that she touched and inspired so many people, but I hadn't known the full extent of that until we started shooting. Adrienne Matzenauer (aka Adrienne Fontana, Adrienne Myerberg, Adrienne Henoch) (1914–2010), American singer We pride ourselves on our selection of carefully chosen blooms on a daily basis, suitable for every occasion and budget. Whether you're celebrating the arrival of a new bundle of joy, commemorating a special birthday, extending warm wishes for a new home, marking a cherished anniversary, exchanging vows in a fairytale wedding, or offering solace in times of sympathy, we have you covered. Adrienne is the French feminine form of the male name Adrien. Its meaning is literally "from the city Hadria." [1] Sophie, now an 18-year-old senior in high school, also participates in interviews with her father starting at 15. “One of the beautiful parts of the film is that I had conversations with her and got real emotion from her that I don’t think I would’ve gotten if there wasn’t a camera there,” he said. Prescribed questions, for a project about her mother, allowed for a level of vulnerability an ordinary conversation might not. She starts the film admitting to her father that she hadn’t cried about her mother in years. By the end, the missing feels not abstract but palpable, and the tears begin to flow.

Sarachan: I loved the use of the conversation excerpts between you and Sophie as a child. What inspired you to use those? Welcome to Adrienne's Flowers, a busy family run florist, nestled in Ropa Court, just off the high street in the market town of Leighton Buzzard.Shelly never got to see it; on the afternoon of 1 November 2006, she was strangled to death by a 19-year-old construction worker named Diego Pillco, after she walked in during his attempted robbery of the West Village apartment she used as her office. Pillco staged her body like a suicide, and she was found hours later by her husband, Andy Ostroy. If it weren’t for Ostroy’s doggedness in disputing the initial suicide ruling, and the identification of Pillco’s shoeprint in the dust of Shelly’s bathroom, the killing would have probably gone unknown and unsolved. Numerous friends from her childhood through to the set of Waitress recall Shelly as ebullient, remarkable, a unicorn, an alien, an old woman in a tiny beautiful body, special – “Adrienne was like no one else you’d ever meet in your life,” said Ostroy, echoing similar sentiments from Keri Russell, Paul Rudd, Cheryl Hines, Nathan Fillion, Burke, her mother and brothers, and many others. “When you were in her presence, you really felt, ‘Wow.’” Sarachan: Would you mind sharing some information with our readersabout the Adrienne Shelly Foundation ? Ostroy: It started with a strong vision: life, death, aftermath . The film needed to answer three critical questions: "Who was Adrienne Shelly, what really happened November 1, 2006, and how does a family navigate unthinkable tragedy?" From there, it became a long process of mining personal archives, film clips and conducting interviews with family, friends, colleagues and other key individuals related to Adrienne's life story. The challenge was to weave the various themes together in a way that was balanced and which moved the narrative forward in a compelling story.