‘I would never imagine my name would change my life’. This is the extraordinary story of a not so ordinary woman called Angela Shelton.
One day, Angela decided to google her name to see how many namesakes she had. To her surprise it was a lot for just the States. Being a filmmaker, she decided to do a documentary and interview most of them…a road movie on namesakes if you like. But the most unexpected was along the road.
She started to knock on doors, interviewed other Angela Shelton and filmed. To her surprise, in the course of her numerous interviews she discovered that lots of the women had more in common than just a first and last name.
In fact, out of 40 interviewees, 28 of them had been victims of rape, sexual assault or abuse. Horrified by that fact and because it hit home hard, this film and her simple google search started to change her life. Her father had sexually molested her from the age of eight. She was also a survivor and other Angela Shelton and other women and children were suffering the same. She changed the angle of the documentary and even created the Angela Shelton Foundation to help the victims.
