Entertainment One Set to Release "Skin" and "Everyday Black Man on February 1st

Sandra Laing (Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda, The Secret Life of Bees) was born a black child in the 1950s to white Afrikaners unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents,rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, lovingly raise her as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, facing prejudice from her community due to her dark skin and African features, Sandra is driven out of society. The powerful, inspirational SKIN follows Sandra’s extraordinary 30-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. Based on an incredible true story of family, forgiveness and the celebration of the human spirit, SKIN – winner of more than ten film festival awards, including “Best Feature” – makes it DVD debut on February 1 following its 30 market national theatrical release.


As a girl, Sandra is sent to a boarding school in the nearby town of Piet Retief, but when parents and teachers complain that she doesn’t belong, she is examined by state officials, reclassified as ‘Coloured,’ and expelled from the school. Sandra’s parents are shocked, but her father, Abraham (Neill), fights through the courts to have the classification reversed. The story becomes an international scandal and media pressure forces the law to change, so that Sandra becomes officially ‘White’ again.

By the time she is 17, Sandra realizes she is never going to be accepted by the white community. She falls in love with Petrus — a black man, and begins an illicit love affair. When Sandra elopes with Petrus, Abraham has them arrested and put in prison. Told by the local magistrate to go home, she refuses, and now she must live her life, for the first time, as a black woman in South Africa — with no running water, no sanitation, and little income. Although she feels more at home in this community, she desperately misses her parents and yearns for a reunion, the chances of which seem ever more remote as each year of hardship and struggle wears on. But Sandra carries her father's advice with her wherever she goes: “Never give up!” in this ultimately uplifting true story based on the best-selling book by Judith Stone.




An ordinary man is forced to return to his former violent past to protect his beloved community and daughter from a con man seeking to destroy everything he holds sacred in Carmen Madden’s EVERYDAY BLACK MAN. Timed for Black History Month, this festival favorite makes its DVD debut on February 1 for $19.98SRP. Extras include deleted scenes and a behind-the-scenes featurette.


Since closing the door on a criminal past, quiet and thoughtful Moses Stanton (Brown, Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon III, Scrooged) spends his days running a small neighborhood store, and watching over his daughter Claire (Thompson, “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Heroes,” “Veronica Mars”). When a young man, Malik (Hardwick, Kick-Ass, The A-Team, For Colored Girls), arrives claiming to be a black Muslim that wants to do good for the neighborhood, Moses takes him on as a partner and Claire is instantly swept off her feet by this charming young spiritual leader. But Moses soon realizes that Malik is nothing but a drug dealer seeking to destroy the neighborhood and Claire. Now, Moses must again become the violent man he used to be in order to save his beloved community and his daughter.