SKIN
USA, 2018 - 20’
Direction: Guy Nattiv / Screenplay: Guy Nattiv, Sharon Maymon / Producer: Jaime Ray Newman, Guy Nattiv, Andrew Carlberg, Tim Harms / Cast: Jonathan Tucker, Danielle Macdonald, Ashley Thomas, Jackson Robert Scott, Lonnie Chavis, Shelley Francisco, Johnse Allende Jr., Zeus Campbell / Cinematography: Drew Daniels / Music: Noa Assido / Editor: Yuval Orr / Producer Company: Jaime Ray Newman / Distributor: Salaud Morisset
A small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.
Guy Nattiv is an acclaimed filmmaker from Israel. His first American feature film, entitled SKIN, stars Jamie Bell and Vera Farmiga and premiered at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival where it won the Fipresci Critic’s Prize. It will make its European premiere in 2019 at The Berlin International Film Festival, and was acquired by A24 for distribution in late 2019. It is based on the true story of Bryon Widner, a notorious white supremacist who goes through extensive surgeries to remove Neo-Nazi tattoos on his face and hands in order to reform. The feature is derived from Nattiv’s acclaimed short film, also entitled SKIN, which won best short at Hollyshorts and the San Jose Film Festival, and was short-listed for the Academy Awards in 2019.
