Find Your Champion: It Just Takes One Person to Change Your Life

Andy Ostroy
2 min readFeb 6, 2024

Everyone in life needs someone who believes in them. Their champion. For my late wife Adrienne Shelly, that person was Michael Roiff.

Michael was just a 26-year-old kid from Boston who moved to Los Angeles with the dream of producing his first film. So when the script for WAITRESS landed in his lap, he saw something that no one else had seen. Literally…

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Andy Ostroy

Director, producer, podcaster, writer, resistor, non-profit-supporter of women filmmakers