02.11.09 at 7pm- Award winning film featured screening “Skin” with Sophie Okonedo at 17th Annual Pan African Film Festival
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
WHO: “SKIN” cast members, award winning director Anthony Fabian, celebrity guests, and VIP’s
WHAT: The 17th Annual Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) will present a featured screening and Q&A of “SKIN.” Based on true events, “SKIN” tells the story of a genetic abnormality that caused a woman born of white parents in apartheid South Africa, to look like a black person. Tormented and unaccepted by white society though classified as white, she falls in love with a Black man and moves to a township, alienating her parents.
Stars Sophie Okonedo, directed by Anthony Fabian. Talent attending, special surprise guest. Q&A to follow screening. Film is approximately 107 minutes.
WHERE: Culver Plaza Theatre, 9919 West Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA.
WHEN: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Red carpet 6:30 p.m.
WHY: The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is the largest and most prestigious flagship black film and arts festival in the country. The festival consists of more than 150 new movies by filmmakers and 100 fine artists from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, the South Pacific, Europe and Canada, showcasing the diversity and complexity of people from African descent. www.PAFF.org
