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EAGLE AND THE ALBATROSSSaturday, September 25, 2021 at 5:00 PM
FEATURE NARRATIVE | 97 MIN | English | USA
A film by Angela Shelton
General Admission $10 | Student + Children $8
An orphaned Korean girl (AMBER LIU, KPOP singer) seeks a golf mentor (DAN LAURIA, Wonder Years) in a town full of misfits and discovers an unlikely family.
About the Director
Angela Shelton is an award-winning filmmaker, whose first screenwriting and producing credit, Tumbleweeds (1999), received the 2000 Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker’s Trophy and earned actress Janet McTeer an Academy Award® nomination and a Golden Globe®. Variety listed Angela as the Top Ten Screenwriters to Watch.
Angela followed Tumbleweeds with an adaptation of Kaye Gibbons’ novel Charms for the Easy Life (2002) starring Mimi Rogers and Gena Rowlands (Showtime).
In 2001 Angela made her directorial debut with the multi-award-winning documentary Searching for Angela Shelton, surveying women across the U.S. who were also named Angela Shelton. She discovered that 70% of the women she interviewed, like herself, been a victim of rape, childhood sexual abuse and/or domestic violence. Her memoir, Finding Angela Shelton, published by Meredith Publishing in 2006, describes how making the documentary changed her life.
Committed to helping others, Angela travelled the world for over a decade as an internationally recognized social activist raising money for rape crisis centers and domestic violence shelters as a public speaker. She collaborated with trauma informed care providers to create a healing program to help abuse survivors move on from trauma.
In 2016 Angela began her first feature film HEART, BABY!, that she wrote, directed, and produced, about the true story of a prison boxer who turned down a chance for freedom to fight in the 1984 Olympics. (Limited theatrical release, late 2018)
In her 2018 film, Eagle and the Albatross, Angela used her own experiences with her mentors in the tear-jerking comedy about an orphaned half Korean girl who seeks help from a widowed optometrist with the only thing both of them love - golf. The only problem is, he only has three months to live.
Angela balances her time working in Los Angeles and New York City while living in the country with her husband and daughter.
Vaccination and Mask Policy for The Women’s Film Festival
All attendees must show proof of being *fully vaccinated (print or photo). Unvaccinated individuals, children under 12 and people with a medical condition or closely held religious belief that prevents vaccination, these guests must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance start time.
Anyone attending any screenings at The Great Ballroom at Masonic Temple on 9/18/2021 must all be *fully vaccinated and show proof of vaccinations (print or photo) with no exceptions.
Masks will also be required for audiences inside the theater and common areas while walking around, except while seated or eating food and/or drinking beverages in the designated areas for fully vaccinated individuals.
Temperature checks will be taken at the door prior to entering the building.
*“Fully vaccinated” means the performance date must be at least 14 days after the second dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, or at least 14 days after a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N American St, Philadelphia, PA 19106, United States
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