Connecting with a community reshaping understanding of a ubiquitous presence in Manhattan’s streets, skies, and park spaces, director Troy Vetri follows eight New Yorkers whose lives revolve around a bird the city has long overlooked for his documentary feature Pigeon Religion.

- Troy Vetri

Among an estimated five million pigeons, these caretakers, hustlers, and flyers have spent years turning birds into athletes, muses, and spiritual lifelines. In an exclusive clip, we meet a woman who engages with New York’s pigeon population as a means of spiritual transcendence, confronting the financial risks of devotion against the quiet defiance of finding beauty in what the world considers trash.