Angela Shelton

Angela Shelton is an award-winning filmmaker, whose semi-autobiographical movie Tumbleweeds (1999) was awarded the Sundance Film Festival (2000) filmmaker's trophy and earned the lead actress Janet McTeer an Academy Award® nomination and a Golden Globe® win. Angela followed Tumbleweeds with her highly acclaimed adaptation of Kaye Gibbons's novel Charms for the Easy Life (2002), starring Gena Rowlands. In 2004 Angela made her directorial debut with Searching for Angela Shelton (2004), a documentary aimed at surveying women across the U.S. who were also named Angela Shelton. However, she soon discovered that 70% of the women she interviewed with the same name had, like Angela, been a victim of rape, childhood sexual abuse or domestic violence. The film received many accolades and went on to begin a grassroots movement of survivors and humanitarian organizations around the world dedicated to exposing the epidemic of abuse. Her memoir, "Finding Angela Shelton" was published in 2006 and