The film premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and was shown at Cinequest Film Festival, South by Southwest, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the Sarasota Film Festival, the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, the Calgary International Film Festival, and the Edmonton International Film Festival, among others, before going into limited theatrical release in the United States, opening in one city at a time in select metropolitan areas.
It debuted on the festival circuit in January 2005 at the Slamdance Film Festival where it was well received.
This film earned an honorable mention in the Spirit of Slamdance category at the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival.
Carr has shot additional scenes for the film every to two years since 1996, and having been rejected 5 years in a row from major film festivals, he eventually won or was nominated for Jury Prize and/or special distinctions at 14 of the top festivals such as Best Picture at Malibu Film Festival, Best Picture at San Francisco World Film Festival, Jury Prize Nomination at Slamdance Film Festival and others.
Self Helpless was featured in the 2010 Filmmaker Summit at Slamdance.
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She has appeared on Showtime in the documentary, I Am Comic which premiered at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival and in the stand-up special Vegas Is My Oyster premiering August 5.
Music by Chanda has been heard all over the world in such festivals as Cannes Film Festival, Jackson Hole Film Festival, Sapporo Short Film Festival, Slamdance, Sundance and Pangea Day 2008.
As a producer, his short film "Our Neck of the Woods" was part of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival; another short film, "Head in the Sand", will appear at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Slamdance Film Festival, The Snell Show went on to play many festivals across the nation, including the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, Maryland Film Festival, AFI Film Festival, and Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.