Anthony Fabian's Posts - iPeace.us2024-03-29T05:38:56ZAnthony Fabianhttps://ipeace.us/profile/AnthonyFabianhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/63685464?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://ipeace.us/profiles/blog/feed?user=00tdw2sbj55ik&xn_auth=noSKIN RELEASED IN LONDONtag:ipeace.us,2009-07-28:2217368:BlogPost:18943382009-07-28T08:01:14.000ZAnthony Fabianhttps://ipeace.us/profile/AnthonyFabian
Greetings Peacemakers!<br />
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Come one, come all to see SKIN in the Odeon Panton Street (just off Leicester Square) and the ICA Cinema (The Mall, off Trafalgar Square) - the film is no limited release now and needs to demonstrate box office potential if it is to grow.<br />
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SKIN tells the uplifting true story of Sandra Laing - a black child born to white Afrikaner parents in apartheid South Africa - unwaware of their black ancestry. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to…
Greetings Peacemakers!<br />
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Come one, come all to see SKIN in the Odeon Panton Street (just off Leicester Square) and the ICA Cinema (The Mall, off Trafalgar Square) - the film is no limited release now and needs to demonstrate box office potential if it is to grow.<br />
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SKIN tells the uplifting true story of Sandra Laing - a black child born to white Afrikaner parents in apartheid South Africa - unwaware of their black ancestry. 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. You'll find the trailer on here and on the dedicated website, www.skinthemovie.net.<br />
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Your help and support would be hugely appreciate - go and see the film - and if you are inspired by it, join the street teams we are putting together to help promote the film.<br />
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Cheers!<br />
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TonySKIN UK CHARITY PREMIERE!tag:ipeace.us,2009-06-15:2217368:BlogPost:17567962009-06-15T15:59:04.000ZAnthony Fabianhttps://ipeace.us/profile/AnthonyFabian
I am pleased to announce the UK Charity Premiere of SKIN, to benefit FilmAid (www.filmaid.org) - a charity which brings wonderful films to war-torn regions of the world, providing a few hours of respite from their daily struggles. They also train people to make their own films and document their experiences.<br />
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I believe this film and charity align themselves perfectly with the aims of i-peace, and hope you will do your utmost to promote this event. Tickets are currently on sale through…
I am pleased to announce the UK Charity Premiere of SKIN, to benefit FilmAid (www.filmaid.org) - a charity which brings wonderful films to war-torn regions of the world, providing a few hours of respite from their daily struggles. They also train people to make their own films and document their experiences.<br />
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I believe this film and charity align themselves perfectly with the aims of i-peace, and hope you will do your utmost to promote this event. Tickets are currently on sale through ticketmaster and are £25.00.<br />
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The event will be attended by a host of celebrities and the stars of the film, and the screening will be followed by a Q&A.<br />
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You will find all the details here: http://projects.pearlfisher.com/skintickets/index.html<br />
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SKIN<br />
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Starring Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill and Alice Krige<br />
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2nd July, 2009<br />
Doors Open 6:15 – Screening 7:15 pm<br />
Odeon West End, Leicester Square<br />
London WC2<br />
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“A measured and harrowing central performance from Sophie Okonedo...<br />
Her anguish lingers long after the credits roll.” - Mike Goodridge, Screen Daily<br />
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“Emotionally mesmerizing. Unmissable.” - Chrissy Iley, writer, Sunday Times<br />
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SKIN is based on the extraordinary true story of Sandra Laing – a black child born in 1950s South Africa to white Afrikaner parents, unaware of their black ancestry. Abraham and Sannie Laing are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community. They lovingly bring Sandra up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, she is expelled from school and 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.<br />
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World Premiere: Toronto International Film Festival<br />
Audience Award - AFI Dallas International Film Festival<br />
Audience & Jury Favorite Awards. Pan-African Film Festival, Los Angeles<br />
Jury Award, Best Feature – Palm Beach International Film Festival<br />
Audience Choice Award - Santa Barbara International Film Festivall<br />
Audience Award, Rochester High Falls International Film Festival<br />
Time for Peace First Film Award (judged by 25 UN Ambassadors)<br />
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An Elysian Films, Bard Entertainments, Moonlighting Films Production<br />
Directed by Anthony Fabian<br />
Written by Helen Crawley, Jessie Keyt, Helena Kriel<br />
Produced by Anthony Fabian, Genevieve Hofmeyr, Margaret Matheson<br />
Directors of Photography Dewald Aukema sasc, Jonathan Partridge<br />
Edited by St. John O’Rorke<br />
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Running time 107 minutes<br />
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See the trailer on i-peace and more details here: www.skinthemovie.netAnother Audience Award!tag:ipeace.us,2009-05-18:2217368:BlogPost:16278052009-05-18T16:07:15.000ZAnthony Fabianhttps://ipeace.us/profile/AnthonyFabian
SKIN just won it's seventh award this year... Audience Choice Award at the Rochester High Falls Film Festival, run by Catherine Wyler (daughter of legendary director, William). Here are the details:<br />
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http://www.rochestersmoviefest.com/<br />
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The timing is good, as we are still hoping to finalise investment in the US release. Watch this space!<br />
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Best<br />
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Tony
SKIN just won it's seventh award this year... Audience Choice Award at the Rochester High Falls Film Festival, run by Catherine Wyler (daughter of legendary director, William). Here are the details:<br />
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http://www.rochestersmoviefest.com/<br />
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The timing is good, as we are still hoping to finalise investment in the US release. Watch this space!<br />
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Best<br />
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TonyUK Distribution News...tag:ipeace.us,2009-05-05:2217368:BlogPost:15753692009-05-05T21:24:07.000ZAnthony Fabianhttps://ipeace.us/profile/AnthonyFabian
ICA Films is proud to announce the acquisition of UK Theatrical and DVD rights for Anthony Fabian’s award-winning drama SKIN, starring Sophie Okenodo, Sam Neill and Alice Krige. The film, based on the true story of Sandra Laing, premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and has gone on to win numerous international awards (see below). Date for UK theatrical release will be 24 July 2009 with a DVD release which will include several extra features slated for later in the year.…
ICA Films is proud to announce the acquisition of UK Theatrical and DVD rights for Anthony Fabian’s award-winning drama SKIN, starring Sophie Okenodo, Sam Neill and Alice Krige. The film, based on the true story of Sandra Laing, premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and has gone on to win numerous international awards (see below). Date for UK theatrical release will be 24 July 2009 with a DVD release which will include several extra features slated for later in the year.<br />
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The deal was brokered by Robbie Little, Co-President of The Little Film Company and Mark Adams, Director of Cinema of ICA Films.<br />
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Mark Adams said: “We are delighted to be releasing such a powerful and beautifully performed film. Anthony Fabian’s passion for the project is evident and we are convinced that this is a film that will move and inspire audiences.”<br />
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Fabian is equally excited by the partnership; “I’m thrilled to be working with such a dedicated and discerning team at the ICA. Their distinctive brand and track record in independent, world cinema makes them the perfect partners for SKIN.”<br />
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SKIN is one of the most extraordinary stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing (Okonedo) is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners (Neill and Krige), unaware of their black ancestry, who raise their child as a “white girl”. But at the age of ten, Sandra is expelled from her all-white boarding school and embarks on a thirty-year struggle to find acceptance in a society torn by race and politics.<br />
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Awards:<br />
2009 Palm Beach International Film Festival – Jury Award, Best Feature Film<br />
2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival - Audience Award<br />
2009 Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival – Audience Award + Jury Award<br />
2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival – Audience Choice Award<br />
2008/2009 Time for Peace Film and Music Awards – Best First Film<br />
2009 FilmFest DC – Finalist, Audience Award<br />
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For further information, please contact:<br />
Yung Kha<br />
Film Press Officer - ICA Press Office<br />
Tel: 020 7766 1406<br />
Email: yung.kha@ica.org.uk<br />
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US Distribution news to follow...<br />
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Other territories sold include: South Africa, France, Germany (TV only), Greece, Benelux, Scandinavia, Korea, Middle East.More gongs for SKINtag:ipeace.us,2009-04-29:2217368:BlogPost:15505462009-04-29T08:01:13.000ZAnthony Fabianhttps://ipeace.us/profile/AnthonyFabian
SKIN just won the Jury Award for Best Film at the Palm Beach Film Festival.<br />
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http://www.vimooz.com/festivalticker/2009/04/14th-palm-beach-international-film-festival-winners/<br />
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"Commented Feature Film Jurors Shohreh Aghdashloo and Debbie Frank, “This is a hopeful and powerful story that is still relevant after 50 years, with race issues, religion issues…all the same universal struggle to understand we are all human, despite our differences.”<br />
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It also came first runner up for the Audience Award…
SKIN just won the Jury Award for Best Film at the Palm Beach Film Festival.<br />
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http://www.vimooz.com/festivalticker/2009/04/14th-palm-beach-international-film-festival-winners/<br />
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"Commented Feature Film Jurors Shohreh Aghdashloo and Debbie Frank, “This is a hopeful and powerful story that is still relevant after 50 years, with race issues, religion issues…all the same universal struggle to understand we are all human, despite our differences.”<br />
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It also came first runner up for the Audience Award in Washington DC: http://www.filmfestdc.org/<br />
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Circle Audience Award<br />
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Founded by Ted and Jim Pedas, Washington's Circle Theatres set the standard for innovative quality film programming. Filmfest DC presented an award to the feature film voted the most popular by our audience. The top 5 films for this year are:<br />
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1. Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love by Chai Vasarhelyi (Senegal, France, Egypt, USA)<br />
2. Skin by Anthony Fabian (UK, South Africa)<br />
3. Old Man Bebo by Carlos Carcas (Spain)<br />
4. The Least of These by Clark Lyda, Jesse Lyda (USA)<br />
5. The Necessities of Life by Benoit Pilon (Canada)A view from Washington DCtag:ipeace.us,2009-04-25:2217368:BlogPost:15374272009-04-25T13:58:41.000ZAnthony Fabianhttps://ipeace.us/profile/AnthonyFabian
This is a report from a bi-racial South African woman who assisted me in May 2004 when I conducted a series of script development workshops in Johannesburg to improve the screenplay of SKIN. She now lives in Washington DC and attended last week's packed screenings at Filmfest DC. I asked her to do a Q&A on my behalf, as I was unable to attend. There seems to have been quite a large South African contingent at the screening!<br />
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I thought you might be interested in the audience response to the…
This is a report from a bi-racial South African woman who assisted me in May 2004 when I conducted a series of script development workshops in Johannesburg to improve the screenplay of SKIN. She now lives in Washington DC and attended last week's packed screenings at Filmfest DC. I asked her to do a Q&A on my behalf, as I was unable to attend. There seems to have been quite a large South African contingent at the screening!<br />
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I thought you might be interested in the audience response to the film....<br />
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Mr. Tony Gittens, Director of FilmFest DC, and I watched and waited patiently as commuters and other folks from DC arrived in groups; many ran up the escalators and headed for theatre 11, right up to the last minute. It had been a packed house on Friday, when I first saw SKIN. Tonight it outsold all other movies.<br />
I was amazed how many people had reserved seats for each other. People had planned their evening in groups of 5 or more even. A movie of this caliber does not come often. Pondering over the diversity of the audience and their expectations, I scanned the theatre as it filled up. Perhaps they were looking for a chance to see racial absurdities expressed in detail (especially since race, and racism, have taken a back seat to the historic inauguration which took place a few blocks away from the theatre); or maybe they came to see the inspirational strength of a burdened woman; or perhaps just to indulge in a movie from Sub-Saharan Africa. Of one thing I was certain – there would be very few dry eyes as the credits rolled.<br />
But I was the first to cry. From the moment Miriam Makeba's voice bellowed from the screen, I realized that I was finally here, seeing the script come alive, home again.<br />
Soon the audience began to interact with the characters in ways I never expected. Individual gasps are not unusual, but these were collective comments, particularly from women who were seeking to reconfirm their responses. I had never enjoyed being disturbed in a movie like this before.<br />
This audience indeed had access. It was not only acquired through the intimacy of the event but through the outrage freely demonstrated as the movie progressed. With each pivotal, disturbing and heartbreaking moment, the anger grew and spread, until the audience had amassed enough courage to vocalize this outrage. Each comment illustrated how cognisant we were of the cage almost all the characters were locked in.<br />
The same was true for the actors of the South African script development workshops I took part in, in May 2004: they would hold their heads in despair, unable to find a way out of the pain their characters had to endure.<br />
There was consequently much to discuss during the Q&A after Monday night’s screening. Resembling the two weeks of script workshops, this diverse group of people articulated the characters’ journeys and weighed them against their own experiences.<br />
Whilst I waited for the opportunity to begin the session, a woman walked up to me. She was in tears (as were many other people), but hers were still pouring as she thanked me and added how much the movie reminded her of her mother. “I miss my mother so much”, she stated, as her tears continued to stream down her face. I hugged her and listened to her husband proudly informing me that they too were African (Ethiopian).<br />
Some of the audience required more information about the tenets of apartheid, its race classification system and the history of South Africa from the time Europeans settled there. A lady stood up to remind us of the horrors of the “Stolen Generation” in Australia and how one could compare the whole country’s history to that of South Africa…and the United States.<br />
Others commented on the strangeness of using Zulu and Swazi for the black characters, but only English for the Afrikaaners (specifically the Laings). From there rose a discussion on the use of language in the country, with other South Africans raising their hands to add comments (and help!). One of the most interesting queries was concerning the issue of redemption: Of all the people who had hurt Sandra Laing, only Petrus Zwane had not been given the opportunity to “redeem himself”. This comment was to be broadened outside the theatre after more people came up to thank me for the movie as the Q&A came to a close. Later, the elections being held in South Africa two days after this screening were also brought up. “From the years depicted in “Skin” to today, what has changed? Is it really too late?”<br />
In my attempts to elucidate the triumphs and hopes from the heavy days of apartheid, I tried to be as concise as possible; I still had to answer for the absence of Petrus Zwane in the movie in the later stages of Sandra’s life. Huddled outside the theatre, two young men emphasized their hearty impressions and explained why they would have preferred to witness Petrus’ redemption. “Skin” moved people and spoke out about a legion of topics that hardly see the light of day in the arts and media; it appealed to those who encountered and felt aligned to its varying themes, including the frustrated and consequently sometimes abusive men of colour. This last lingering question regarding Petrus reiterated the intensity of “Skin” and all it implies. -- Sibongile Makhaya