If ever there were a true-life tale that laid bare the laws of South African apartheid in all their arbitrary lunacy, it’s the one dramatized in Skin, Anthony Fabian’s straight-ahead biopic of Sandra ...

A strange and tragic true story from the apartheid era is aired in “Skin,” a potent look back at a regime of lawful racism. Sandra Laing was born in 1955 to white parents in South Africa. Because of a ...

Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo has signed to play the lead in South African drama "Skin," based on the true story of the birth of a black baby named Sandra Laing to white parents during the 1950s. By ...

Anthony Fabian’s “Skin,” which premiered in Toronto in 2008, and was a finalist for the Audience Award, arrives in US theaters today. The film follows the life of Sandra Laing, a phenotypically black ...

I remember the story of Sandra Laing. I lived in Cape Town during 1965, the year this film begins, and it was all over the South African newspapers. Sandra was the daughter of white Afrikaners, the ...

WHEN TWO WHITE parents (Sam Neill and Alice Krige) in South Africa give birth to a brown baby with nappy hair during the apartheid era, neighbors and the government turn a critical eye. Is the baby ...

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.) ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - In apartheid-era South Africa, a country where race meant everything, Sandra Laing was a poster child for injustice, classified "colored" even though her parents were white. Kicked ...

Movies about the violent struggles in apartheid-era South Africa have proved to be audience repellents in recent years, but Skin could be different. This accomplished first feature from documentary ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Some true-life tales are better suited to documentaries than fictionalized feature films. That's the case with "Skin," which chronicles the fascinating story of Sandra ...

The Sandra Laing case made international news as an example of South Africa's apartheid at its nuttiest, when, in 1966, the nine-year-old Laing, who was significantly darker than her white-skinned ...

Many journalists consider Sandra Laing difficult to interview, but how would you like your personal life laid bare for the world to see? People ask her questions like: "How does it feel to be rejected ...