Review of THE SKIN I’M IN in Gay Calgary Magazine

O Canada! Check out another thoughtful review of THE SKIN I’M IN’s digital and DVD release in Gay Calgary Magazine.

A film that takes you down deep into the underbelly of one man’s struggle with identity, gender, sexuality, body image and alcohol will be readily available to view across the globe beginning October 1st.

The Skin I’m In is a candid, honest and raw autobiographical look at Broderick Fox’s brush with death in a Berlin subway terminal and rise to self-actualization.

“Being blunt about my story I can… entertain but potentially also help other people,” he says. “One of the gifts that sobriety has given me is the sense that honesty is a great liberator.”

In his film Fox, a world travelled gay university professor/film maker/erotic hairdresser/actor/singer and variety of other things journeys to Victoria, British Columbia to have First Nations artist Rande Cook design him a personal tattoo, commemorative of a lifetime of trial and achievement. Read full article

EFILMCRITIC.com Victoria Film Festival 2013 Interview – THE SKIN I’M IN director Broderick Fox

Victoria Film Festival 2013 Interview – THE SKIN I’M IN director Broderick Fox

by Jason Whyte

THE SKIN I'M IN producer Lee Biolos, MATERIAL SUCCESS director Jesse Mann, and THE SKIN I'M IN director Broderick Fox at the 2013 Victoria Film Festival Opening Gala. — THE SKIN I’M IN producer Lee Biolos, MATERIAL SUCCESS director Jesse Mann, and THE SKIN I’M IN director Broderick Fox at the 2013 Victoria Film Festival Opening Gala. Photo by Jason Whyte

Please tell me about the technical side of the film; your relation to the film’s cinematographer, what the film was shot on and why it was decided to be photographed this way.

I shot much of the project myself. It also pulls from a lifelong archive of video, film, and photographic imagery I shot growing up. As such it contains a dizzying array of formats including Super 8 film, VHS, Hi-8, Mini DV, SD Video, and HDV. Two wonderful friends from film school shot key materials; Sarah Levy, shot my first trip up to Victoria to meet Rande and also filmed the sit-down interviews with my multiple “selves.” Andrew Groves shot nearly all the tattoo sessions for me, 29 hours of tattooing all told. It was a real gift to have the camera operators in these intimate situations be close friends whom I trust implicitly. In a few additional instances other friends, a former student, and my partner picked up the camera when needed. People have called the project a very big “little film,” and I hope it inspires others to pick up the tools and technologies at their disposal to tell great stories.

Read full interview here

Totem Pole’s Thunderbird Brings Rain to the Netherlands

Rande and his team are now in Leiden, completing and installing the first ever totem pole in the Netherlands for the Museum Volkenkunde. Rande reports:

I put the wings on kwanusila today, he came alive!!
Thunder and lightening all over holland now!!

He has awakened… 😉

Rande Cook Tapped to Carve First Totem Pole in the Netherlands

THE SKIN I’M IN featured artist Rande Cook has been commissioned to carve what will be the Netherlands’ first and only totem pole for the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden. See photos and videos of the carving progress on the Museum Volkenkunde website or in the U’mista Cultural Society Facebook album.