NFB Collection
Skin Deep
19951 h 20 min 59 secFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction
Direction: Midi Onodera
Production: Midi OnoderaMehernaz LentinPhillip IngGinny StikemanSilva Basmajian
Script: Midi OnoderaBarbara O'Kelly
Co-produced by Daruma Pictures and the NFB.
Award winning Director Alex Koyama is poised to make her next feature--a film about love, obsession and trendy tattoos. She's charming, charismatic, and has a competent, sexy lover Montana, who doubles as her assistant. When Alex places an ad for a production assistant in a tattoo magazine, young, transgender Chris responds. Alex sees potential for research and enters into a disturbing power-game with Chris. Ignoring warnings from Montana, Alex allows Chris' infatuation with her to spiral out of control. The consequences are tragically drawn out as the drama of Alex's own life supersedes her created fiction. Skin Deep peels away the layers of a person's identity as it leads the viewer into worlds where people are never what they appear to be.
Subject categories
- Sexuality and Reproduction > Interpersonal RelationshipsSexual minorities (2SLGBTQ+ people)
Credits
- director
- Midi Onodera
- producer
- Midi Onodera
- Mehernaz Lentin
- Phillip Ing
- Ginny Stikeman
- Silva Basmajian
- script
- Midi Onodera
- Barbara O'Kelly
- photography
- Robert MacDonald
- sound
- Robert Wolfson
- Ao Loo
- editing
- Sarah Peddie
- sound editing
- Jane Tattersall
- re-recording
- Shelley Craig
- music
- Kathryn Moses
- cast
- Natsuko Ohama
- Keram Malicki-Sanchez
- Dana Brooks
- Melanie Nicholls-King
- David Crean
- Chris Peterson
- Tara Charendoff
- Geoff McBride
- Ken Hori
- Michael Gencher