THE Skin, which stars Jamaican actor Carl Bradshaw, is one of several movies up for screening at the 22nd annual Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) in Los Angeles, California.
The festival begins Thursday and concludes February 17.
Produced by Antigua and Barbuda’s Hama Films Antigua and released in 2011, The Skin was shot in Antigua and is written and directed by Howard Allen.
A supernatural thriller, the film is built around Michael and Lisa (Brent Simon and Aisha Ralph), a young couple on the verge of losing their home.
Their luck seems to change when Michael, while on a photo-shoot at historic Betty’s Hope Estate, discovers an ancient vase and sells it to an antique dealer (Jeff Stewart).
Bradshaw plays the role of a “psychic”. “He is more like a scientist who sees things in advance. He has certain powers,” he told the Jamaica Observer in a previous interview.
Bradshaw, whose acting credits include The Harder They Come, Dancehall Queen and Third World Cop, is not concerned about being typecast. “As far as I am concerned, I am diverse.
I started out in comedy. If you remember, Smile Orange was originally a stage play before it became a film,” he said. Celebrity jurors for the PAFF include actresses Vanessa Bell Calloway and Dawnn Lewis.
The PAFF is the largest festival in the United States dedicated to black films. Each year PAFF shows more than 150 films made in the United States, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, Latin America and Canada.
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