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City: Los Angeles
State: CA
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/13/2006
Friday, August 17, 2007 

Current mood:  giddy
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
WOW! After all the hard work and festival screenings, I'm so happy to say that I've come across some amazing reviews for Angels! I'm sure there will be more to come seeing as premiere dates are in the works.

"Amid overwhelming grief and sadness, the childrens' faces light up the screen. The film won a documentary special jury prize."
-The Variety

"A wealthy Johannesburg, South Africa, family abandons their comfortable existence and spends their life savings to establish an orphanage in a village in which 50 percent of the population is HIV-positive."
-Seattle Post-Intelligencer

This subject matter, which also includes child rape (a horrific myth says that sex with a virgin cures AIDS), is devastating, and Hogarth's camera finds the tragedy in the eyes of the orphans, many of who have grown too old too soon. Audiences will be drawn, though, by the children's irresistible spirits and by Cloete's fierce blend of goodness and outrage.
-Seattle Times

Given the abundance of current films addressing our collective malaise, you may be tempted to skip this one. Don't. In spite of the subject material, it is uplifting and inspirational – a primer for those of us who are losing hope.
-Real Change

Angels in the Dust could have been another depressing doc about AIDS in Africa, but Louise Hogarth found a bright and positive center with Marion Cloete and her husband and how they sold everything they had to open an orphanage to help children dealing with AIDS. Very inspirational.
-Andy Spletzer, film.com