Butterfly Girl
Butterfly Girl opts for a celebration of life over a fear of death to ultimately devastating effect.
Butterfly Girl
At first glance, it is not obvious that Abbie Evans lives with a life-threatening skin disease. She is a typical teenager: moody, rebellious, irreverent, and also strikingly beautiful. But her life is the antithesis of normal. Abbie grew up in hospitals, cared for by her protective mother. She then came into her own in honky-tonks, selling merchandise for her father's band. But just like any other 18 year old, Abbie yearns for an identity of her own. Butterfly Girl charts Abbie’s journey towards a new understanding of how she must balance her past with her future, her parents with her independence and her disease with her desires. But what price must she pay for that freedom?
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
80
Language
English
Cast
Abbie Evans,
Stacie Bolyard
FEATURED REVIEW
Joe O'Connell, Austin Chronicle
At almost 19 she spends nights working the merchandise table at places like Austin’s Hole in the Wall as her singer/songwriter father John tours Texas. During the day she’s fighting epidermolysis bullosa, a rare disease that causes her skin to blister on contact and raises the possibility of her ...
Played at
NoHo 7 8.28.15 - 9.03.15
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