PIGEON PROJECTS: BRIAN M. CASSIDY + MELANIE SHATZKY

Pigeon Projects was founded in 2005 as a means of producing the uncompromising fiction and non-fiction films of Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky. Living comfortably at the margins of documentary and narrative cinema, works created by Pigeon Projects forgo conventional storytelling methods in order to accommodate stark imagery, elusive characters and a deadpan realism.

Together, Cassidy and Shatzky have shown their work at the Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, and Rotterdam film festivals and won awards at the European Media Art Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, and the Athens International Film Festival. Their films have also shown in museums and galleries including the National Gallery of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2007, Filmmaker Magazine named them as one of "25 New Faces of Independent Film". Cassidy and Shatzky are currently on the film festival circuit with their two films, The Patron Saints, and Francine, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo.