2005 GLFA Films

Searching for Angela Shelton

Category: Documentary Feature
01 hr: 31 min: 58 sec
Director: Angela Shelton

In "Searching for Angela Shelton" filmmaker Angela Shelton journeys across the United States to meet other Angela Sheltons and through them survey American women in the early 21st Century. What she wasn't prepared for was learning that 24 out of 40 Angela Sheltons she spoke to had been raped, beaten or molested, herself included. The first Angela she meets rents out space to a foster care company and the filmmaker was in a foster home as a child. It gets stranger when there is an Angela Shelton who tracks sexual predators and just happens to live in the same town as the filmmaker's father who is a child molester and defiled her and her step-siblings for five years. "Searching for Angela Shelton" forced filmmaker Angela Shelton to confront her past and she found herself on her father's doorstep on Father's Day for the first time in twelve years. The Angelas are angels on the filmmaker's shoulders who not only share similar pasts but also similar paths to healing. God is a recurring theme in the movie and the last Angela the filmmaker meets is a Muslim. Child abuse and violence against women have no boundaries of race, gender, religion or political party and "Searching for Angela Shelton" shows that there is no boundary to the healing either. The film is dedicated to survivors all over the world. Whether you know it or not, you probably know someone who was sexually abused and this movie is helping to break the silence.

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