In My Mother's Skin Interview: Jasmine Curtis-Smith & Kenneth Dagatan on Their Flesh-Eating Fairy
16Prime Video wasn’t about to let anyone else snatch up In My Mother’s Skin at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Before the movie's January 20th debut, the streamer claimed the global distribution rights to the much-praised Midnight line-up selection.
Writer-director Kenneth Dagatan’s second feature takes place in the Philippines at the tail end of World War II. Tala (Felicity Kyle Napuli) and her little brother Bayani (James Mavie Estrella) must stay home with their ailing mother (Beauty Gonzalez) while their father (Arnold Reyes) attempts to free the family from the Japanese. When their mother’s condition worsens, a desperate Tala accepts the gifts of a fairy played by Jasmine Curtis-Smith who promises to cure her. Unfortunately, this fairy’s intentions aren’t as pure as Tala hopes.
While in Park City for In My Mother’s Skin’s big premiere, Dagatan and Curtis-Smith swung by the Collider Studio presented by Saratoga Spring Water to discuss the evolution of the story, its use of Filipino mythology, how Willem Dafoe’s performance in The Lighthouse influenced Curtis-Smith’s approach to bringing The Fairy to screen, and loads more.
You can catch it all in this interview!
Special thanks to our 2023 partners at Sundance including presenting partner Saratoga Spring Water and supporting partners Marbl Toronto, EMFACE, Sommsation, Hendrick’s Gin, Stella Artois, mou, and the all-electric vehicle, Fisker Ocean.
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