SKIN A FILM BY RON ORDERS AND ARPAD BONDY 16 mm - 52 minutes - Color 1987 THE STORY For the poor farmer in Columbia, the chance of catching a cayman means a useful extra outcome. He hunts at night by torchlight, armed only with a machete. He gets about 50 cents for each skin. The belt and handbags which are eventually made from this skin sell for hundreds of dollars in the fashionable stores of Europe and America. SKINS follows the trade from the poor hunter to the consumer. An estimated 10 millions reptiles are killed each year for their skins. Much of this trade is illegal. In Columbia, which ban the trade entirely, there is an active traffic in skins out of the Caribbean seaports. The film introduces some of the dealers and smugglers involved in the traffic, and some of the official trying to control it.