"ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR. SOPHIE OKONEDO IS MAGNIFICENT"

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times


"POWERFUL! OSCAR-WORTHY PERFORMANCES"
Leonard Maltin, Reelz Channel (The Secret's Out)


"ENORMOUSLY MOVING"
Ella Taylor, The Village Voice

 

SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds.

 


"EMOTIONALLY MESMERISING... UNMISSABLE"
Chrissy Iley, The Sunday Times (UK)

"ONE OF THE YEAR'S MOST AFFECTING FILMS"
Marshall Fine, Huffington Post (USA)


"A WORK OF GREAT BEAUTY AND INSPIRATION"
Barry Ronge, Sunday Times (South Africa)


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WINNER!
AUDIENCE
AWARD

WINNER!
ACCOLADE
AWARD

WINNER!
ENVIRONMENTAL
AWARD

Best South African Film
7th Annual Tri Continental
Film Festival
South Africa, 2009

Accolade Award
For Excellence
Original Score
Hélène Muddiman

Cial Environmental Award
Giffoni Film Festival 2009

WINNER!
Best Independent
Film 2010

NOMINATED!
BEST ACTRESS
SOPHIE OKONEDO

WINNER!
maestro award
SOPHIE OKONEDO

3rd Annual MAE Awards

Black Reel Awards

3rd Annual MAE Awards 2010

WINNER!
Human Rights
& Peace Award

NOMINATED!
Discovery of
the Year

NOMINATED!
Best
Score

Tbilisi Film Festival, Georgia, 2010

World Soundtrack Awards, 2010 - Hélène Muddiman

Ivor Novello Awards, 2010 - Hélène Muddiman


BEST
Cinematographer
in a Feature


South African Film and Video Awards - Dewald Aukema


 

WINNER!
Audience
Award

Best Narrative Feature
AFI Dallas International
Film Festival 2009

WINNER!
Audience
Award

Audience Choice Award
Santa Barbara International
Film Festival 2009

WINNER!
Audience & Jury
Favorite
Awards

Best Narrative Feature
Pan African Film Festival
Los Angeles 2009

WINNER!
Time for peace
Award

Best First Film
Time for Peace
Film & Music Awards 2008/2009

WINNER!
JURY
Award

Best Feature Film
Palm Beach International
Film Festival 2009

WINNER!
Audience
Award

Best Feature
Rochester High Falls Int'l
Film Festival 2009

FINALIST!
Audience
Award

Circle Audience Award
Film Fest DC
Washington DC 2009

WINNER!
Best Debut Feature
Award

Rehoboth Beach
Delaware, Film Festival

WINNER!
Best Film
Award

Mediterrante Film Festival
2009, Bari, Italy

NOMINATED!
Best Film
Political Film
Society

Best Film Expose and
Best Film on Human Rights

NOMINATED!
Best Actress
Sophie Okonedo

2010 NAACP Awards

WINNER!
Rising Star 2010
Sophie Okonedo

Bahamas Int’l Film Festival

WINNER!
Grand Jury
Prize

Bordeaux Cinema Science Festival, 2009