Skin of the Sky

Runtime: 120'

Expected release: December 2025

Production stage: Rough Cut

Budget: $45,000 (80% in place)

1st feature: No

Looking for: Festivals, sales, co-producer

Synopsis:

Skin of the Sky is a poetic essay film that drifts through the borderlands, where horses and humans move through circuits of labor, violence, and abandonment. Told in fragments and spectral images, the film lingers at a threshold—where bodies vanish, stories echo, and the visible gives way to what resists being seen.

Director’s Profile:

Andrea Bussmann was born in Toronto, Canada. She holds an MA in Social Anthropology and an MFA in Film Production. She directed He Whose Face Gives No Light (2011) and co-directed Tales of Two Who Dreamt (Berlinale Forum, 2016), which won Best Documentary at the Festival International de Films de Femmes. Her feature Fausto (2018) premiered at Locarno and won Best Latin American Feature at Mar del Plata. That same year, she received the Discovery Award from the Directors Guild of Canada. Her films explore the porous borders between fiction and non-fiction, often weaving literature, myth, and experimental form into narratives shaped by lived encounters. Working across hybrid modes, she engages multispecies relationships, layered temporalities, and liminal states to challenge cinematic conventions and open alternative ways of seeing, sensing, and inhabiting the world.