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November 18, 2008

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  Hélène Muddiman

Thank you, David, for your kind words about the film 'Skin' and the score, which I composed. Anthony Fabian (the Director) and I went to enormous efforts to record the music in South Africa and around the world using musicians against the black/white stereo types, so we had black string players and white percussionists etc.... I was particularly excited to work with Miriam Stockley who is a white woman who sang the black male sounding vocals!!! This was a challenge in keeping with the message from the movie! :-) Thank you for all your support, we need more people, like you, who will champion it's cause and then hopefully it will be in cinemas soon. It has taken 7 years to get this far.... 'Never Give Up!'...

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David Burnett

Helene, thanks so much for responding. You did a MAGNIFICENT job with the music score.

I commend everyone involved in the project for a job well done. :)

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i have just watched the film "skin" and it touched me so much. The scenes where sandra was beaten in front of her classmates and when she tried to lighten her skin made me cry. I have a biracial daughter and it really touched me how that poor girl must have felt. A truly wonderful film and one of my favourites.

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A touching movie.
I just came back from seeing it here in Seattle. I too was teary eyed a few times when watching it. It is hard to watch film that is non-fiction...knowing that what you see probably happened in the same way.

I was in my teens (in South Africa) when we read about the Laings. Because of Apartheid and the animosity between the races, we laughed when we heard what those Afrikaners were going through, not once thinking about how the little girl was suffering at school. We just thought the parents were "bad people" and deserved what they were going through.
Makes me shudder when I think about it all these decades later. I know I did not know better, was young, that the messed up country made me do it,etc... but I sure feel some shame today for not thinking about Sandra.

I understand she does well after all these years with her large family of kids and grandkids.
I rejoice.

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Oh yes David, you did a "swell" job, its just a pity nobody speaks out for the other side, like more than 2000 white farmers being murdered after "peace" was negotiated...

I never voted for the Nat government and yet we are killed cause we are white.

Maybe some day someone will after the genocide has been completed.

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What a great movie !!! maybe my favorite one really!!

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I heard a lot of comments about it.
so I rent it and is absoluty amazing Much of the film unfolds in a lengthy flashback that opens in the mid-1960s, when the young Sandra is still living in her rural home with her parents and older brother,Her father, Abraham and mother, Sannie , run a grocery store for blacks. A passionate supporter of the government and its policies, Abraham insists that his black customers put their money on the counter, presumably to avoid physical contact. Sannie seems more tolerant, though she’s under the patriarchal heel. They’re loving parents, demonstrably fond of their children, whose physical differences (Leon has a lighter complexion) they don’t appear to acknowledge or even see until after they drop Sandra off at an all-white boarding school. woww you have to see it.Its good movie!!!

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