FilmGordon (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
2009 is shaping up to be the year of strong emotional stories featuring women of color. In her latest film, “Skin,” Black Reel Award winner Sophie Okonedo portrays the anguish of a young Black woman growing up White in Aparthied South Africa in the 1950s. She sat down with Wilson Morales to talk about this [...]
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... Skin is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa. Sandra Laing (Okonedo) is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community who lovingly bring her up as their white little girl. But at the age of 10, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows her...
Clutch Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
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Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... on their mind. Chris wants to DJ on a leading station, hooking up with industry insider Tracy (Sophie Okonedo) in the process. Caz them starts a relationship with political activist and punk Billibud (Jason Durr), while both of them run the gauntlet of abuse from the estate's local skinheads. The friendship of the two 'Soul Patrol' DJs is stretched by their respective pairings and...
Cinedelica (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... on their mind. Chris wants to DJ on a leading station, hooking up with industry insider Tracy (Sophie Okonedo) in the process. Caz them starts a relationship with political activist and punk Billibud (Jason Durr), while both of them run the gauntlet of abuse from the estate's local skinheads. The friendship of the two 'Soul Patrol' DJs is stretched by their respective pairings and...
VH1 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... Mandela film, the BBC TV movie "Mrs. Mandela," which stars Hudson's "Secret Life of Bees" co-star Sophie Okonedo in the title role, is planned in the coming months.
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
I’m ashamed to say that while I’m familiar with Isaac Julien, the black British filmmaker, I haven’t seen any of his films: The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999), Vagabondia (2000), Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996), the acclaimed documentary Looking for Langston (1989), and Young Soul Rebels (1991), which co-starred a much younger Sophie [...]
Life, Doctor Who & Combom (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Here is a report of The Temple of Peace Doctor Who filming on Thursday 12th November, over to Jon Preddle; Euros Lyn and Sophie Okonedo both turned up at the filming at the Temple of Peace yesterday. If I overheard correcty, he is directing the next or an upcoming episode, which - again if I overheard correctly - is episode 2! I heard him also mention he was to do Christmas, but it's...
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Thankfully there's some good, big British production news, this isn't a small budget horror film, oh no, this is a film starring Kevin Bacon, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Sophie Okonedo and James Nesbitt, the film is a comedy about a failed heist in a fish market. What's the title? Whole Lotta Sole. Yes, there's a big groan there, but the idea of grabbing Bacon next to the excellent home grown...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Skin RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Drama. Directed by Anthony Fabian. With Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Ella Ramangwane and Tony Kgoroge. (PG-13. 107 minutes. At the Clay in San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley.) It isn't just the inhumanity...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... more a few years later, the moment captured by that scene.Portrayed by the fine British actress Sophie Okonedo ("Hotel Rwanda") as the teenager and adult, with a delightful Ella Ramangwane as the child, we see Sandy grapple with the "what are you?" question as much as those around her.The story begins after the Population Registration Act of 1950, which classified all South Africans...
Rantings of a Creole Princess (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The award-winning drama Skin tells one of the most unusual and moving true stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa. Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo, The Secret Life of Bees ) is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners (Sam Neill, Alice Krige) who are unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In a true story set in apartheid-era South Africa, Sophie Okonedo plays a black woman born to white parents (the result of racial mixing generations earlier). The actress brilliantly evokes her shy character and gets excellent support from Alice Krige and Sam Neill as her mother and loving but bigoted father. Skin is a tragic, enraging, and uplifting tale. The most feel-good aspect may...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... about how to use such a small space. Friday 6 November : actors Daniel Evans, Kenneth Cranham, Sophie Okonedo and Sian Brooke discuss the experience of performing in the works produced for the Theatre Upstairs. All panels start at 7pm, tickets £7.50. Jerwood Theatre Upstairs @ The Royal Court, Sloane Square, SW1. For more information, see The Royal Court website .
AfricanLoft (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo) is distinctly black — in appearance at least — despite the fact that both her parents, Abraham (Sam Neill) and Sannie (Alice Krige) are white Afrikaners.Store owners in a remote area of Eastern Transvaal, South Africa, Abraham and Sannie are unaware of their own individual black genetics and have lovingly raised Sandra as their white little girl. Things soon...
