This week has seen the release of my first feature film, SKIN - nine years in the making (take heart!). It's based on the extraordinary true story of Sandra Laing, a black woman born to white Afrikaner parents in apartheid South Africa - unaware of their black ancestry. The film premiered in Toronto last year and has won nine prizes at festivals around the world. Apart from Time Out, which has done its damndest to kill it, it's had excellent reviews and lots of media coverage (see details here: www.skinthemovie.net - click on Press). What it doesn't have is advertising muscle behind it... ICA Films, which is distributing, can barely pay for an ad in the listings mags. So even those who want to see it have trouble finding it.
We need YOU - go and see the film, support it - and, if you feel inspired, join the street teams we are currently putting together to help wrangle punters. We're only in two cinemas - the ICA and Odeon Panton Street - and yet, without the barage of Hollywood advertising - it's hard to get people in. My composer, Helene Muddiman, spent most of the weeekend leafletting AND IT REALLY WORKS! It's incredibly inspiring seeing the cinema fill up thanks to a dose of enthusiasm - and a belief in the message of the film: irrespective of difference, we are all bound together by our common humanity. I know it sounds WORTHY - but it's not: it's a cracking tale which provides emotional workout, and it's about family, forgiveness, and the triumph of the human spirit.
If you want to find out more about how you can help, please contact me via the website - www.skinthemovie.net - or write directly to: tony@elysianfilms.com.
Cheers!
Anthony Fabian
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