Theatrical Release     
10/30/2009    
Director     Credit
Anthony Fabian     Director
Cast     Credit
Sophie Okonedo     Sandra Laing
Sam Neill     Abraham Laing
Alice Krige     Sannie Laing
Tony Kgoroge     Petrus Zwane
Ella Ramangwane     Young Sandra
Faniswa Yisa     Nora Molefe
Hannes Brummer     Leon Laing
Production Credits     Credit
Simon Fawcett     Executive Producer
Margaret Matheson     Producer
Genevieve Hofmeyr     Producer
Robert Little     Executive Producer
Anthony Fabian     Producer
Laurence Paltiel     Executive Producer
Alasdair MacCuish     Executive Producer
Phumi Mashigo     Producer
Moses Silinda     Executive Producer
Hellen Kalenga     Executive Producer
Production Companies     Credit
Bard Entertainments, Ltd.     Production Company
Moonlighting Films     Production Company
Elysian Films Ltd     Production Company
Distribution Companies     Credit
Jour De Fete     Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Nordisk Film     Foreign Distribution Rights
Indies Entertainment     Foreign Theatrical Distributor
UGC Ph     Foreign Distribution Rights
European Film Partners (EFP)     Foreign Theatrical Distributor
ICA Films     Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Conquest Films     Foreign Distribution Rights
Front Row Pictures     Foreign Distribution Rights
Spentzos Films     Foreign Distribution Rights
Locations      
Johannesburg, South Africa      
Writer     Credit
Judith Stone     Source Material
Helena Kriel     Screenplay
Johann Potgieter     Screenplay
Jessie Keyt     Screenplay
Anthony Fabian     Screenplay
Helen Crawley     Screenplay
Art Department     Credit
Darryl Hammer     Art Director
Billy Keam     Production Designer
Casting     Credit
Christa Shamberger     Casting
Christa Schamberger     Casting
Ana Feyder     Casting
Film Camera     Credit
Jonathan Partridge     Director of Photography
Dewald Aukema     Director of Photography
Film Sales Financing     Credit
Aramid Entertainment     Co-Financier
Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa     Co-Financier
National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa     Co-Financier
LipSync Productions     Co-Financier
Little Film Company     Worldwide Distribution Sales
Music     Credit
Helene Muddiman     Original Music
Production Management     Credit
Mary Soan     Assistant Director
Sound     Credit
Paul Cotterell     Sound
Peter Baldock     Supervising Sound Editor
Steve C Shaw     Sound
Wardrobe Hair Makeup     Credit
Fotini Dimou     Costume Designer
 Synopsis:
Sandra Laing entered the world a beautiful baby but no one, not the hospital staff, her mother, father or neighbors would admit the obvious. Abraham and Sannie Laing were white yet their daughter was dark. By a biological quirk, the pigment of an unknown black ancestor had lain dormant for generations and manifested in Sandra. If there was ever a wrong place and wrong time for this phenomenon, it was apartheid South Africa in 1955. In childhood she was reclassified as colored under apartheid laws and forcibly removed from her whites-only school, despite a legal challenge by her parents.She later eloped with a black man and became estranged from her parents, before seeking a reconciliation with her mother after the fall of apartheid.