ANGELA SHELTON

Who is Angela Shelton?

Model - Actress - Writer - Filmmaker - Public Speaker - Mom - Superhero - Cook

Angela Shelton is an award-­winning filmmaker, whose first screenwriting and producing credit, 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’ novel Charms For The Easy Life (2002) starring Mimi Rogers and Gena Rowlands.  

In 2001 Angela made her directorial debut with the documentary Searching For Angela Shelton, 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 herself, been a victim of rape, childhood sexual abuse and/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.

Searching for and Finding Angela Shelton

The memoir Finding Angela Shelton shares the true healing journey of how filmmaker Angela Shelton was forced to face and end her own self-abuse and self-hatred while making her documentary, Searching for Angela Shelton.

HEALING

Following the documentary’s release Angela travelled for over a decade as a public speaker on the subject of trauma, recovery and surviving abuse. After over a decade on the road she created an online healing course in order to stay home with her daughter. She shares powerful, easy, and fun ways to heal from past trauma and become the unique and wonderful person you are. her own traumas of childhood sexual abuse and domestic violence.

BECOMING A SUPERHERO

As an actress Angela won an Emmy for her role as Safe Side Superchick in the video series The Safe Side created by Baby Einstein’s Julie Clark.

The videos Stranger Safety (2004) and Internet Safety (2006) are shown in schools across the country.

Watch it here.

Being a Mom

Angela has a powerhouse daughter who wrote a movie at the age of 3 and is now aerial dancing and building worlds in Minecraft at 7 and wondering why it’s taking so long for her movie to be made.

ACTING

On film Angela has starred in 9 Line (2014) and Comfortably Numb (1995) and her television roles include Pacific Blue, Chicago Hope and Becker and a comedy role in Eagle and the Albatross.

WRITER

Fulfilling a dream of living in the country and writing books, Angela moved from the city to rural life, had a child, and wrote a handful of books including Will Date 4 Food, The Adventures of Tilda Pinkeron, and Tilda Pinkeron and the Magical Hats.

The next phase are the Stirring Up Trouble cookbooks, new healing workbooks, and the book of PrickED.

FILMMAKER

In 2010 Angela heard the story of her feature film bio-pic Heart, Baby! later named The Hammer.

In 2015 Angela went into production of her first feature film Heart, Baby!, which she wrote, directed, and produced.

Renamed to THE HAMMER for a Walmart release that sold out, the film tells the remarkable true story of a male survivor of child abuse in Tennessee who became a prison prisoner. He was offered freedom in exchange for winning gold for the USA in the 1984 Olympics. He refused and the film reveals why.

Eagle and the Albatross

Angela followed her award-winning first feature up with a heartwarming comedy Eagle and the Albatross starring KPOP singer Amber Liu and Dan Lauria from The Wonder Years.

Round Room

Angela has other features and a mini-series in development through her production company Round Room Productions based in Nashville, TN along with Round Room Music.

Angela is loving directing music videos in Nashville as well as writing her own songs.

STIRRING UP TROUBLE

Her ongoing comedy cooking series began with Season One talking about online dating and how to date for food.

Season Two she shares how she believes that feminism f*cked up because the men didn’t come. So she invites men over for food and talks openly about how to have great sex and better relationships.

Sci-fi Thriller

Her sci-fi thriller film that brings up many of the darker things she discovered in her trauma work is in development.

OUTLAW COUNTRY

The Prequel to The Hammer aka Heart, Baby! reveals the true story of how Doc ended up with life in prison and how it all leads back to Round Room!

PrickED

Her end goal is her show PrickED. It is a massive undertaking - Cirque du Soleil meets Vagina Monologues on Peyote.

Angela Shelton takes us through playful, harsh, hilarious, and profound lyrical stories, dances, and mind altering visuals to present a new sexual education, moving us from the old paradigm of Sex-ED into being PrickED.

What’s Happening Now?

ALWAYS working on something - Angela has a team helping her on her myriad of projects so she can actually stop to eat or hike a waterfall. Connect to help out.

In the middle of her favorite self-care pastime she tore her ACL dancing to Lynard Skynard’s Simple Man. After surgery, she’s in physical therapy and about ready to get back on the aerial fabrics.

Personal Life?

She splits her time between Nashville and up North where she unplugs for mom time.

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