‘Skin’ to Premiere at Toronto Film Festival
Jamie Bell as Bryon Widner in Skin
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Skin, the movie that tells the true story of Bryon Widner, a onetime enforcer for the Vinlander Social Club for whom turning his back on hatred and violence meant undergoing painful and expensive operations to remove the tattoos that life, will premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Based on the Bill Brummel documentary Erasing Hate, The movie stars Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, Turn) as Bryon, Danielle MacDonald (Patti Cake$) as Julie, Vera Farmiga (The Departed, Bates Motel) as Shareen and Mike Colter (Luke Cage, The Good Wife) as One People’s Project’s Daryle Lamont Jenkins, who was instrumental in helping Bryon leave his old life behind.
The movie is the first produced in America for Israel-born director Guy Nattiv, known there for the movies Stranger and The Flood.
The 43rd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 6 to 16, 2018. Individual tickets go on sale September 1 to TIFF Members, September 2 to Insiders, and September 3 to the public. Watch this page for the day Skin debuts.