ADRIENNE SHELLY UPDATE. After weeks of online silence, Adrienne Shelly's bereaved husband Andy Ostroy has returned to his blog The Ostroy Report and helped establish the Adrienne Shelly Foundation:

We know that Adrienne would like us to do everything possible to help young women pursue their filmmaking dreams, and to assist others in making the same leap from acting to writing and directing as Adrienne had done so successfully.

Our first priorities are the creation of the Adrienne Shelly Scholarship Fund, which will help young women attend film school; to award grants which will help women finance independent film projects; and to produce readings of deserving scripts. Other Foundation initiatives will be annnounced over time.

With your generous donation, you can honor Adrienne's memory, her talent, and help preserve her legacy, while affording others some of the same opportunities she was grateful in life to have experienced.

Shelly directed Waitress, which has been chosen for the Sundance Festival. Early on, she appeared in The Unbelievable Truth, an excellent movie that will play at Boston's Brattle Theatre tomorrow night.

I'd like to see screenings of Shelly's movies in New York City and Long Island--perhaps as fundraisers for the foundation.

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