Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Liberty International Publishi
• DVD Release Date: October 19, 2004
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00067BBZU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151,991 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This is the limited first edition with the funny end credits. There are only 10,000 copies of these made and if you bring it to an Angela Shelton Event, you can win prizes. In the uplifting and multiple award-winning documentary, Searching for Angela Shelton, filmmaker Angela Shelton drives around the United States surveying other Angela Sheltons. She discovers that 24 out of the 40 Angela Sheltons she speaks to are survivors of rape, childhood sexual abuse and/or domestic violence. (The number jumped to 28 out of 40 when 4 more Angelas broke their silence after the movie was completed.) On her journey the filmmaker meets an Angela Shelton who tracks sexual predators and lives in the same town as the filmmaker's father, who sexually abused her and her siblings for years.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible film! Angela Shelton is amazing!, November 9, 2004

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Robin Gray-Reed (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Searching For Angela Shelton (DVD)

Searching for Angela Shelton is a documentary of the journey one Angela Shelton took around the country interviewing other women named Angela Shelton about their lives. This is a powerful film about violence against women that reaches past racial and class differences offering unity and hope. In searching for other Angela Sheltons, the filmmaker begins to find herself and encourages all viewers to do the same.

Though not for the faint of heart, I recommend this film wholeheartedly. (The DVD does have the option of viewing the film with or without strong language--a definite bonus.) This is for mature audiences who can deal with the mature subject matter of sexual abuse and assault. Somehow, Angela manages to turn a taboo subject into a source of inspiration and hope for all women whose lives have been touched by violence.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moving, devastating, inspiring, January 3, 2005

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Denise Daniel "neicy76" (Birmingham, Alabama United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Searching For Angela Shelton (DVD)

First, I cannot believe that there are not more reviews of this very moving documentary. I am not an incest survivor of my immediate family, but a victim of a distant relative. Thank God, my parents were so overprotective that he did not have access to me any more than he did! Of course, I didn't tell. I was twelve at the time, because I would not have been believed - because I was a CHILD and therefore probably imagined it(!) And that SOB was innocent, right? WRONG!

I was so very touched by Angela, her story, and the story of the other Angelas, particularly the "Anonymous" Angela. I hope, hope she is okay. I pray that the documentarian Angela, the anonymous Angela, and all of the other Angelas are doing at least better. What a very moving and thoughtful documentary.

Angela is such a lovely, wonderful survivor. The scene with her scumbag father made me so mad! What a manipulative SOB! I wish that I would have been with Angela then and would have held that poor excuse for a male and castrated him with a rusty tin can! And the aftermath in the RV after the meeting with the SOB - I cried along with Angela and, with empathy, felt her frustration and rage.

But, I'm so glad that she triumphed over that scumbag "sperm doner." (I refuse now to call him her "father.") She is living a fulfilling life and he is a low-life and always will be. Someday, he will stand before God on Judgement Day and will finally have to admit his crimes, something that he would not do in this life.

Anyway, I would highly recommend this movie. It shows that the American dream is not all light and that there is plenty of SECRET darkness.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Powerful Documentary You Need To See, November 17, 2005

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Mary Loveless "lovelessm" (Enid, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Searching For Angela Shelton (DVD)

I watched this film as part of Victim's Advocate training and it is without a doubt the most powerful, compelling documentary on sexual assault survival I have seen to date. Although there are some disturbing truths detailed in the film, there is also a strong message of survival and that when you least expect it, you can make a difference to a victim to help them on the road to recovery. I would dearly love to have my own copy but unfortunately, no one seems to have any copies available!