CENTERPIECE FEATURE: SKIN

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Dir: Anthony Fabian
2008 | South Africa/UK | 107 min

This movie was so awesome...the directing, the acting, the scenematography, the story line.. I cried throughout the true story as I watched similar tales from my life. Me, being born half white and half black, living in a white neighborhood that then turned to a black neighborhood at a time when Cher came out with the song "Halfbreed"!

It makes one wonder what life and family is all about. What should we be fighting for? How long do we allow our personal pride and eagle to keep walls of division between those we state we care about?

Skin was heart breaking! To see a woman alienated from her mom, her family, almost her children yet even more moving was to actually meet the woman Sandra in person and to find out that today, she still has not been reunited with her brothers.

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SKIN, based on a true story, a genetic abnormality caused Sandra, born of white parents in apartheid South Africa, to look like a black person. Tormented and unaccepted by white society though classified as white, she falls in love with a Black man and moves to a township, alienating her parents.

Stars Sophie Okonedo.




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