Adrienne Shelly was an ‘indie’ film actress, writer and director whose real name was Adrienne Levine. She was 40 years old, she was married to Andy Ostroy, with whom she had a daughter, Sophie, aged 3, and She was about to succeed as a film director when suddenly her lifeless body was found in her apartment.. All the media took the news to their newspapers as an apparent suicide, but thanks to the effort and perseverance of his family, a police investigation was launched that determined that it had been a homicide. Fifteen years after that tragedy, her widower is about to demonstrate in a documentary her struggle to prove that she was not the one who took her own life. Adrienne is the title of the documentary directed and produced by her former husband, as a tribute, and which is alreadyand can be seen through the HBO Max platform.
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Through the testimonials of relatives, friends and members of his family, Andy Ostroy tells who Adrienne Shelly was, what really happened the day she died and what it was like for his family to survive this horrible tragedy. Shelly was found dead hanging from a sheet in the bathroom. The family could not believe that the woman, who had not even left a note, had taken her own life. The insistence of her husband and the discovery of some footprints in the bathroom, which did not correspond to the shoes worn by the victim, in addition to other details such as the knot in the sheet or that it was not taut, led the police to suspect that it was a montage carried out by an alleged murderer.
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After a while the police arrested Diego Pillco, a 19-year-old construction worker from Ecuador who ended up confessing to the murder of Adrienne Shelly in a written statement and on videotape. The defendant allegedly got into an argument with Shelly after she complained about noises coming from an apartment below hers. During the discussion, andThe young man hit the woman, leaving her unconscious, and then tried to pretend that it was a suicide. In 2008, Diego Pillco was sentenced to 25 years in prison and five more under supervised release for the murder of the actress.
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At the time of his death, Adrienne Shelly was preparing to premiere her latest film project as a filmmaker The waitress, which swept the Sundance festival and went on to become a hugely successful Broadway musical. She had previously enrolled at Boston University majoring in film production, but she dropped out the first year to start her acting career in indie film in movies like The unbelievable truth and Trust me. In addition to The waitress, starring Keri Russell, directed Sudden Manhattan and I’ll take you there. After his death, all those who When they met her, they began to donate money to Ostroy and he decided to give it the use that Shelly would have wanted and of which she could be proud. I create a foundation to give grants to women filmmakers. One of the film directors who received them was Chloé Zhao, winner of an Oscar for best direction and best film for Nomadland in 2021.
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