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			SKIN DEEP is a 53 minute film that was produced in response to the growing wave of racial hatred and violence in this country. It was made out of the belief that talking about racial issues, both in interracial dialogue and in homogeneous groups, is a necessary first step towards taking action to undo the racial inequalities that permeate our institutions and communities and affect us all deeply as individuals. SKIN DEEP takes the viewer on a journey of dialogue with a group of contemporary college students. The students in SKIN DEEP are from UMASS Amherst, Texas A&M and UC Berkeley. They come from vastly different racial, religous and economic backgrounds. They are from all over the country - small rural towns, huge cities, liberal, conservative, wealthy, middleclass and poor families. In all, 23 students particpated in the film project (we interviewed them, spent time at their homes and/or schools and they flew to California for three days to meet and challenge each other while the cameras rolled). This site will focus on four students who play a major role in SKIN DEEP (we get to know these students very well in 53 minutes of film and see a lot of them during the California weekend.) The SKIN DEEP retreat was facilitated by TODOS: Sherover Simms Alliance Building Institute. For information about professional workshop facilitation, please contact TODOS at: email: hughvasquez@diversitywork.org Phone: 510 912 2416
				Who Are We? Our Director and Producer is Academy Award nominated filmmaker Frances Reid, maker of SKIN DEEP, Straight From the Heart, Faces of Aids, In the Best Interests of the Children and many other award-winning films. Our Editor is Deborah Hoffmann, maker of the Academy Award nominated Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter and editor of many internationally acclaimed documentaries, including SKIN DEEP, Color Adjustment and The Times of Harvey Milk. Our Associate Producer is Kirsten Neff-Jones. She is a writer and filmmaker who was also associate producer of An American Nile, part of John Else's three-part series, Cadillac Desert. Other credits include The Great Depressioin, Peter Adair's Absolutely Positive and Marlon Riggs' Black Is . . . Black Ain't.