Recovery at “Hollywood Beauty Salon” on WHYY’s Radio Times
An interview with Glenn Holsten, Rachel “Hollywood” Carr-Timms, and Darlene Holmes Malone by Marty Moss-Coan of Radio Times on WHYY.
Rashida’s Article in “One Step Away”
Rashida Herring’s article about being in the film has been published in the November 2016 edition of the ONE STEP AWAY newspaper.
Review from Anne Neborak at Delaware County News Network
Darlene Malone met her inner child during the making of the documentary film, Hollywood Beauty Salon. “It was healing but very hard, very painful but I found spirituality and it was therapeutic for me. Being prideful that is not helpful. I opened up and the...
Review from Tirdad Derakhshani in the Philadelphia Inquirer
USING A HAIR salon to treat mental illness? Watch the first few minutes of director Glenn Holsten’s witty, joyful Hollywood Beauty Salon, a documentary about an outpatient mental-health center in Germantown, and the connection will seem obvious. Holsten,...
2016 Voice Awards Event – Video
Glenn Holsten (director/producer) and Rachel “Hollywood” Carr (Hollywood Beauty Salon owner) accept a 2016 Voice Award for the documentary Hollywood Beauty Salon, which tells stories of moving from darkness into hope and light.
NAMI on HBS: New Film Shows the Impact of Community During Recovery
Throughout the film, genuine kindness and compassion exudes from every member of the Hollywood Beauty Salon community. The closeness between these individuals is clear.
Scenester.tv Interview with Glenn Holsten
Q&A Interview with Glenn Holsten, director and producer of Hollywood Beauty Salon, an amazing documentary about a beauty salon in NHS Germantown Recovery Community, a non-profit mental health program in Philadelphia, that gives people with mental illness a place to go to to work on becoming beautiful from the outside and inside.
“One Week Only” Podcast
Hollywood Beauty Salon is included in this episode of the “One Week Only” podcast.
“People Of Dignity” Review from Darrel Manson
“Hollywood Beauty Salon is not about hairstyles of the rich and famous. There is no celebrity dishing. For that matter, there are no celebrities. But here are people whose lives and resilience are worthy of our attention.”
Review from Cinema365
“As a society we have a tendency to try to funnel the mentally ill, the substance abusers and the poor into places where we can’t see them, where they can languish largely forgotten by the world.”
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