A Love Story Underneath an Animal Rescue Story: Director Richard Miron, Editor Jeffrey Star and Producer Holly Meehl on For the Birds

If there's one thing we can be sure of about Kathy Murphy, the middle-aged woman at the center of the moving debut feature, For the Birds, by director Richard Miron, it's that she loves animals. Birds in general, ducks and turkeys in particular. Kathy has been "collecting" them for years now on her small makeshift farm in Upstate New York alongside her begrudging husband, Gary. Less an obsession than an inherent need, Kathy values her birds above all else, and as crowding and cleanliness prompt ...