An interview with Glenn Holsten, Rachel “Hollywood” Carr-Timms, and Darlene Holmes Malone by Marty Moss-Coan of Radio Times on WHYY.

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...

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, a Penn...

Throughout the film, genuine kindness and compassion exudes from every member of the Hollywood Beauty Salon community. The closeness between these individuals is clear.

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.

Hollywood Beauty Salon is included in this episode of the “One Week Only” podcast.

“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.”

“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.”

The film, shot over four years, presents several central characters whose captivating stories of healing become involved with the filmmaking process itself. A must-see.

“I walked away from ‘Hollywood Beauty Salon’ with a renewed belief that the broken values and perspectives in society can be healed and changed.”

Check out two new Hollywood Beauty Salon clips on shadowandact.com.

“This documentary about a beauty salon will make you rethink mental illness,” says Isha Aran for Fusion. “It’s rare to see a film about mental illness that isn’t exploitative.”

Hollywood Beauty Salon is featured on LA Weekly’s list of 19 Films You must see before Summer ’16 Ends.

Watch a short featured scene from Hollywood Beauty Salon on HULU.

It’s skin-deep but in the best way; the shop’s proprietress, Rachel “Hollywood” Carr Timms, makes no bones about the importance of feeling pretty when the heart and mind are in turmoil. These are stories crafted with care, with glimpses of the filmmaking process — a chance to see the camera operators and director themselves at times in awe of the fortitude they’re witnessing.