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Screenings and Awards
**Winner**
Best Feature Documentary
Cinequest Film Festival
**Winner**
Special Jury Award
Florida Film Festival
Press Reviews
The Mercury News
www.mercurynews.com
San Jose Metro
www.metroactive.com
Variety
www.variety.com
Rotten Tomatoes
www.rottentomatoes.com
Fanboy Planet
www.fanboyplanet.com
“A painful, beautiful documentary…”
-- Traci Vogel, San Jose Metro
“… a potent and discomfiting document that will trigger strong reactions.... "Awful Normal" packs considerable intensity into a brief runtime.”
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety
“Director Celesta Davis makes powerful use of the documentary format…”
-- Bruce Newman, Mercury News
“A raw, emotional experience that everyone should see.”
-- Chris Garcia, Fanboy Planet
“Viewers are shielded from very little, and the tears flow both from those on the screen to those in the audience.”
-- Yoshi Kato, Mercury News
“Powerful, painful and ultimately redemptive…”
-- Steve Rhodes, Rotten Tomatoes
I just want to thank EVERYONE who has been so instrumental in our success with “Awful Normal.” This has been an amazing beginning to what I hope will be a long journey. To all of you who came to the screenings, who introduced yourselves, who’ve kept in touch and offered help, THANK YOU for your support and openness. Our screenings have been like coming home. We were thrilled to win the Special Jury Award for Extraordinary Courage in Filmmaking at the Florida Film Festival and The Best Feature Documentary Award at Cinequest Film Festival. It really was overwhelming. (So much so that I forgot to stand up at Florida and almost missed receiving the reward. I corrected it the next evening in San Jose by running up to the stage!) I am trying to return every e-mail, and LOVE hearing from you – your responses, your stories, your messages -- and encourage you to post comments and responses to the film here so that others can benefit from your strength and love as I have. It is truly by building a community that we further our own healing, and I am learning that personally every day. I hope we’ll be traveling more and more with the film to meet even more of you. And may we all find the healing and strength we need in our own lives.
Some groups that I have found AMAZINGLY HELPFUL to us on the road are:
| Adult Survivors of Child Abuse The Support Network for Battered Women National Call to Action The Healing Tree Santa Clara YWCA Rape Crisis Center Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers | www.ascasupport.org www.snbw.org www.nationalcalltoaction.com www.arnoldpalmerhospital.org www.ywca-scv.org www.atsa.com |
Other groups that I have run into on the web, etc. which you may want to check out are:
| Survivors and Friends The Feminist Majority Childhelp USA Darkness to Light Turning Point MenWeb | www.survivors-and-friends.org www.feminist.org www.childhelpusa.org www.darkness2light.org www.turn-point.org www.menweb.org |
I’ve also heard great things, and have worked a little through:
The Courage to Heal and The Courage to Heal Workbook by Laura Davis
These are just a few resources that I’ve found and are by no means a complete list. Also, there are tons of reviews, etc. on the film on the net if you want to check it out. You can even make comments on some of them. (www.imdb.com) Best to all of you in your journeys! Please add your own recommendations and make comments so that we can all find the help we need. Thanks!!
Celesta
