Angela Shelton
Angela Shelton
Angela Sheltonis an American screenwriter, actress, and documentary film producer, best known for the film Tumbleweeds and the documentary Searching for Angela Shelton, which she wrote, directed, and edited. She has also just released her book, Finding Angela Shelton: The True Story of One Woman's Triumph over Sexual Abuse...
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth5 December 1972
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We were taken to a foster home and my parents were never prosecuted for what they did to us, ... And meeting these women let me see I wasn't alone.
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I threw a party and charged people $50, ... Those who couldn't come got an envelope and asked if they could fill it with $10,000.
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I was going to try to get all the Angelas together but that's too costly, ... So we may have a moment during the day when all of us do something at the same time, I'm not sure what.
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I only wish I could have given him the same thing back when I was five-years-old,
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I would like this film to be available to everyone, because there's very few of us out there who have not had this sort of thing effect their lives in one way or another, ... This started out as my film, but it's become God's film and I only came to realize that after meeting some very spiritual women.
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I want them (the agencies) to have a way to raise awareness and funds, ... I lost my publicist and agent because this wasn't the Hollywood way. I could have sold it to a studio, who wanted to make it into a film starring Julia Roberts, but they would have been the ones making the money, not the people who need it.
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I had this plan to do this simple little film and life said to me, 'I'm glad you have a plan, but this is what you're going to do, ... I found out it was more, much more than just a film, when I received 50,000 emails when it first came out.
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I never intended to confront my father, but it became inevitable, ... Ironically enough, it happened on Fathers Day.
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I'm finishing a book about the making of the movie and I have a comedy I'm dying to do that would be perfect for Jim Carey, ... And I'm getting a cut of the film ready for The Lifetime Channel, for showing next March.
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I thought this would be a cute little film about meeting people with your same name, ... I would shoot it during the summer and then start on my comedy.
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You can't just Google help, ... There will be links and information for anyone who needs it.
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Marcus Allen (Former NFL running back) contributed a lot and told me to 'walk by faith and not sight.' I didn't know what it meant at the time, ... And Rosie O'Donnell paid my mortgage while I was on the road filming. They were all so helpful.