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Directed by | Guy Nattiv |
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Written by | Guy Nattiv |
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Music by | Dan Romer |
Cinematography | Arnaud Potier |
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Running time | 110 minutes [1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Skin is an American biographical drama film written and directed by Guy Nattiv. It follows the life of former skinhead group member Bryon Widner, and stars Jamie Bell, Vera Farmiga, Danielle Macdonald, Mike Colter, and Bill Camp.
A biographical film, or biopic, is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from films "based on a true story" or "historical drama films" in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives.
The skinhead subculture originated among working class youths in London, England in the 1960s and soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working class skinhead movement emerging worldwide in the 1980s. Motivated by social alienation and working class solidarity, skinheads are defined by their close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing such as Dr. Martens and steel toe work boots, braces, high rise and varying length straight-leg jeans, and button-down collar shirts, usually slim fitting in check or plain. The movement reached a peak during the 1960s, experienced a revival in the 1980s, and, since then, has endured in multiple contexts worldwide.
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It had its world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018. It is scheduled to be released on July 26, 2019, by A24 and DirecTV Cinema.
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On May 11, 2017, international rights to Skin was bought by Seville International at the 70th Cannes Film Festival. [2] In August 2018, it was reported that composer Dan Romer would be scoring the music for the feature. [3]
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In May 2017, it was announced that Jamie Bell and Danielle Macdonald would star in the film, with Nattiv writing the screenplay, producing and directing. [4] In March 2018, after production on the film had started, Vera Farmiga was announced to have joined the cast of the film, with Nattiv's wife Jaime Ray Newman reported to be producing. [5] That same month, Mike Colter was cast as Daryle Lamont Jenkins, founder of the One People's Project. [6] Shortly thereafter, actors Ari Barkan, Scott Thomas, Daniel Henshall, Michael Villar, Justin Wilson, and Russel Posner joined the cast.
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It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018. [7] Shortly after, A24 and DirecTV Cinema acquired distribution rights to the film. [8] It is scheduled to be released on July 26, 2019. [9]
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