Caribbean Tales Presents An Exciting Day of Films at the Harbourfront Center’s “Island Soul” Festival Caribbean Tales Annual Film Festival is proud to partner with the Harbourfront Centre to present a day of exciting film screenings and thought-provoking Talk Back sessions at the Island Soul Festival. Curated by Caribbean Tales’ artistic director, Frances-Anne Solomon, an…
Toronto – July 22, 2009 The much buzzed about 4th Annual CaribbeanTales Film Festival has come to a close after another successful year: four event-filled days celebrating the exploding film and television industry across the Caribbean and it’s Diaspora. As Canada’s premier standalone Caribbean film festival, CaribbeanTales presented an astounding 65 of the best Caribbean…
Dear Friends, The Canadian Black Film Festival is hosting the event below on Sunday July 19th 1pm-5pm, and I hope you will come out and join me. Much love, Frances-Anne __________________________________ Toronto – July 16, 2009 The Canadian Black Film Festival’s monthly Film Club is pleased to announce its July session – a special tribute…
Filmmaker Euzhan Palcy gives back By Colin Rickards When award-winning filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon announced her intention in 2005 of staging a Caribbean-focussed film festival in Toronto I recall a naysayer commenting: “It won’t work. Frances-Anne is dreaming.” The lady was wrong in her assertion, because, though on a modest scale, the first Caribbean Tales Film…
Dear Friends, After our 3rd almost sold-out performance at the 2009 Toronto Fringe, the play is receiving rave reviews. The Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/theatre/article/661058 “This gripping new work by writer/director Frances-Anne Solomon presents us with a classroom of various types rebelling against parental, school and police authority.” Moody’s Global – by Gillian Moody http://gillianmoody.blogspot.com/2009/07/july-1st-12th-lockdown-at-fringe.html “Powerful plays…
Friends, The 4th CaribbeanTales Film Fstival starts tomorrow. Don’t miss it! Where: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Avenue, Toronto When: July 9th – 12th 2009 Our FULL FESTIVAL PROGRAM is online here. Tickets are available now through the University of Toronto Box Office at UofTtix Box Office, (416) 978-8849 http://uofttix.ca, or Uof T’s Central Box…
My Dear Friends, It is my pleasure to invite you to join me for the Opening Night of the 4th Annual CaribbeanTales Film Festival! Where: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Avenue, Toronto When: 7pm What: We will be screening 3 wonderful Caribbean films: “Delroy Kincaid…” by Powys Dewhurst, “Gathering The Scattered Cousins” by Akin Omotoso,…
Thanks for coming out! Our opening night was fantastic. We had an almost sold out house, and, despite nerves and other forgiveable birthing hiccups – we got a fantastic response from our audience! Today we are featured among the 10 Best Bets of the Festival in the Toronto Star, AND in the “Emminently Watchable Preview…