Free event at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre Thursday 1st October 2009.
Past: 1-1 October 2009, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Tottenham, London
Join us for a screening of the film SKIN(12A) followed by a Q&A with the film Director, Tony Fabian.
Synopsis
10 year-old Sandra is distinctly African looking, though light-skinned. Her parents are shopkeepers in a remote area of the Eastern Transvaal: white Afrikaners who, despite Sandra’s mixed-race appearance, have lovingly brought her up as their ‘white’ little girl.
British actress Sophie Okonedo delivers a powerful lead performance in Anthony Fabian's true-life drama about the South African woman born with black skin pigmentation to a white couple, and her struggle for acceptance at the height of apartheid. Shopkeepers Abraham (Sam Neill) and Sannie Laing (Alice Krige) raise their daughter Sandra (Ella Ramangwane) and son Leon (Hannes Brummer) in virtual isolation, hoping to protect the girl from the realisation that she is different from her older brother. When the girl enrols at boarding school, teachers make clear their prejudices and Sandra retaliates, only to be expelled. As she grows up, Sandra (Okonedo) continues to rail against an unjust system which prevents her from dating a white man.
