Revealing secrets from around the world connecting us all. What would you share?

We are delighted to have been selected to be a part of the Chagford Film Festival 2024. “The Best Small Film Festival In The World.” (Tickets will be available on this website from Friday August 18 to Friends of the Festival and on general release from Monday, August 21.) Chagford is considered to be “The jewel of Dartmoor”.

The film is part of the In Your Own Skin Project; a world-wide art project inviting authenticity and happiness, connecting us all by revealing our hidden truths.

View the trailer here

“In Your Own Skin achieves the seemingly impossible: connecting us all to the world, to each other and to ourselves. This gem of a movie reminds us that our superpower is not in being shiny but in being authentic and vulnerable. I wish everyone in the world could see this film, and you will too.”
- Firoozeh Dumas, New York Times Bestselling Author

In the film, video portraits capture the unique moment when a person shares a secret, summarized in a long-hidden word or phrase that is then painted onto their skin. Each of these powerful moments releases a generous contribution to the world, a buoyant reminder of living fully and the beauty and strength that comes from facing and embracing our vulnerability.

"A fascinating concept, beautifully realized. What are the secrets we carry deep beneath the surface, and what would it be like to wear them on our skin?
- Starhawk, author and filmmaker, The Fifth Sacred Thing

"Katheryn Trenshaw’s In Your Own Skin Project confirms my faith in deep essential human beauty and the innate benevolence in us all. It is an inspiring visual anthem to humanity."
- Jamie Catto, musician and film-maker. Creator of band Faithless, Grammy award winning 1 Giant Leap film, and film What About Me

“In Your Own Skin celebrates and reveals not just a biodiversity of people but the diversity within each person. Because of the artist’s challenging invitation to her subjects, the project also illuminates and plays with the fascinating gap between the way we see ourselves and the way we imagine we’re seen. We glimpse the elusive, fluctuating space between the image and the self-image.”
- Matt Harvey, performance poet and author

“In Your Own Skin is an inspiring attempt to awaken our deep need for community. The project creates a sort of “song line” of humanity’s vulnerability and heartfelt yearning for connection. In today’s world, a welcome application of creative spirit.”
- Helena Norberg-Hodge, director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), film producer of The Economics of Happiness

“Oh God. Yes. Wow! What a film! This is deeply cooked human nourishment. Film as true art, as medicine for the soul.”
- Susannah Darling Khan, co-director The School of Movement Medicine