EUR REVIEWS 'SKIN': Black child born to white South African parents catches hell. (Video)

Award winning tragic mulatto story with a twist - opens today in NY and LA.

     Her romance with a dark African earned her time in jail; her racial classification legally forced an estrangement from both her parents and two of her children.

     Born an inexplicably African featured child to white parents, who belonged to the party that believed the races should be kept apart, she was classified as white, and admonished to stay out of the sun. 

     To no avail, she became darker until the age of ten when she was police escorted out of her whites only school and reclassified by the government as "coloured" - making it illegal to live with her white parents, and denying her an education at all institutions but one far away boarding school. 

     Feeling understandably more accepted with the children of the African servants, she became attracted to an African vegetable grower incensing her middle class white father who had fought to have her re-classified as white, as the child of white parents.  Her father's public fight to retain her white status resulted in changing of South African laws.  When she became pregnant, it was illegal as a classified white woman to live with her children of color. 

     "Skin," based on the true tale of Sandra Laing's trials has won numerous awards, and receiving acclaim screening at festivals worldwide, in Toronto, Dubai, Rio, and the AFI festival to name but a few, most recently snagging the audience award at the Pan African Festival. 

     Fox Studios veteran, and producer, Bill Wynn is promoting the film's theatrical release. He urges audiences not to miss the film's limited run, particularly one with an all Black cast, which needs the support. Sandra Laing herself has flown in from South Africa to answer questions during the film's American run. 

     "Skin" was more than seven years in the making by director Anthony Fabian who relates that, although screening to rave reviews, he was told by industry insiders it would not perform well with an all Black cast.

     Following Dutch and UK releases, it is up to the US audience to prove otherwise, and come out with a strong show of support for its run here. 

     Starring Oscar nominated actress Sophie Okonedo, "Skin" opens today, Friday October 30, in LA and NY. Tickets and schedule times available online at www.skinthemovie.net.   

Watch the trailer for 'Skin':