August 2012
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CT 2012 : Flashback
In 2009 CaribbeanTales had the honour of welcoming cinéaste martiniquaise Euzhan Palcy, who graciously provided an interview to current blogger, photogropher and all-around media rat jp hodgkinson … C’est vrai que ça commence en français mais [it’s subtitled so don’t panic when you hear only French for the first few seconds]. jph
Bahamian film selected for 2012 Caribbean Tales...
Bahamas Local.com reports on Kareem Mortimer’s new film: August 25, 2012 A Bahamian produced film “Cargo” has been selected to participate at the 2012 CaribbeanTales Incubator program during the Toronto International Film Festival. Cargo is the third feature from award-winning director, Kareem Mortimer. Cargo tells the story of an immigration officer, Kevin, who becomes a...
CT 2012 : Exile And The Search For Home
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in the U.S., award-winning filmmaker Guetty Felin says she came of age cinematically while completing graduate studies in Paris, where she was an associate producer for the series “Écrire Contre L’oubli” (Write Against Forgetting) which aired in commemoration of Amnesty International’s 30th anniversary. She has since added other...
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Antiguan Documentary ‘Silent Music’ to World...
Silent Music, the first feature-length documentary by Antiguan filmmaker Melissa A. Gomez, will have its World Premiere on September 15th at the 2012 CaribbeanTales Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. The documentaryfollows Melissa, a hearing daughter of deaf parents, on a personal journey as she investigates the silence and communication breakdown that define her Antiguan family. What...
CT 2012 : Transcending Cultures And Genres
Sue-Ellen Chitunya is an emerging filmmaker who splits her time between the U.S. and her native Zimbabwe. The Georgia State University graduate is now in the process of completing a graduate degree at the University of California, her ambition and determination having already earned screenings of her work at the Short Film Corner in Cannes, Atlanta Film Festival and the Action on Film Festival....
CT 2012 : Cargo, In All Shapes And Sizes
To date Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer has produced several documentaries and two feature-length films: Wind Jammers and Children of God. The latter was screened at the Miami International Film Festival in 2010 and was “a love story between a black Bahamian and a white Bahamian,” dealing with “the humanity in us all, as opposed to having this overt agenda about how awful it...
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Happy Friday everyone! Bee at ‘83 To Infinity is hosting a contest for 2 tickets to the Caribbean Tales Opening Gala & screening of Menelik Shabazz’ The Story Of Lovers Rock on September 5th! Spread the details and get your entries in before August 30th! TIME TO WIN: Enter The Caribbean Tales Gala Giveaway! Photo source: The Examiner Happy Thursday, y’all! I’m...
13 Days To Go ...
There is now less than 2 weeks before the opening Gala of the 2012 Caribbean Tales Film Festival, and another member of the annual Incubator Program people might want to watch out for is 20-year-old Trinidadian Claire Hamel-Smith. At the 2011 annual Anime Caribe Animation Festival in Port-of-Spain her animated series the The Upstarts won her a scholarship to attend this year’s...
Caribbean Tales Around The Web
The Caribbean Tales Film Festival is coming soon, and we’re finding some great coverage around the web! Check out this recent post courtesy of Toronto blogger Bee Quammie, of the blog ‘83 To Infinity! ARTSY FARTSY: The Caribbean Tales Film Festival Is On Its Way Last week, I shared the news (via Twitter and Facebook) that I was teaming up with the Caribbean Tales Film...
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The Power of the Film Festival
I came away from Caribbean Tales 2011 and TIFF 2011 with my eyes completely opened. Every filmmaker or every wannabe filmmaker needs to go and be a part of a major film festival at least once in their lives. Caribbean Tales offered that opportunity and it is part of the beauty of how the festival is set up to be so close to the Toronto International Film Festival. In terms of location...
CT 2012 : Rodney Smith Launches 2nd Web Series
Rodney Smith aims to make his second visit to the CaribbeanTales Film Festival in 2012 a more memorable experience than the first. The Barbados-born writer and director will be bringing along The Accidental Time Traveller, a 30-minute sci-fi film which will be making its world premiere on September 15 at the Studio Theatre in Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. The multi-cultural flick was filmed...
Incubator 2012 - Facilitator
Nicole Brooks (Canada/Trinidad & Tobago) has made a significant mark on the Canadian landscape for more than 10 years as an artistic maverick blending her abilities in film, television and the performing arts as filmmaker, director, actress, singer, playwright, producer, teacher and ‘art-ivist’. Accomplishments include the critically acclaimed documentary ‘A LINC IN TIME...
Incubator 2012 - Mentors
Penelope Hynam and Rodney Smith (listed above) will serve as Mentors, while also representing their own projects. The other distinguished mentors are: Annette Nias (Barbados) is currently the Cultural Officer (Film and Photography) with the National Cultural Foundation, Barbados. She has functioned as a writer, performer, director, producer, production coordinator and stage manager at...
Incubator 2012 - Participants
Alana Lowe, (Toronto/Jamaica) was the Producer and Co-Director of The Forgotten City … In the City, that was showcased in the Sprockets International Film Festival at TIFF. Lowe is currently working on Stolen from Africa, a documentary that follows the journey of two emerging rap artists as they retrace actual slave trade routes. Claire Hamel-Smith, (Trinidad) Winner of the 2011 Animae...
July 2012
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Coming Soon - CaribbeanTales-TV!
[[posterous-content:pid___0]] At this week’s press conference Frances-Anne Solomon revealed plans for the 2013 launch of CARIBBEANTALES-TV, a Netflix-style portal for viewing Caribbean films online. “Right now we are building the infrastructure, and raising funds, and the site aims to be fully functional onstream by next year.” She added that CaribbeanTales is also in...
Thanks and Appreciation to our Valued Sponsors...
The marvellous Harbourfront Center is home to CaribbeanTales Toronto Showcase and Incubator. “Greetings from Harbourfront. It’s a pleasure to partner with Frances-Anne and her team at CaribbeanTales. I am excited about the line-up this year, especially the Youth Film Challenge. Harbourfront is the ideal place to do this, as it works well with our mandate, of nurthuring the growth...
Many thanks to our Sponsors...
We are grateful for the ongoing support of the Consulate General for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in Toronto. “We are proud to be associated with CaribbeanTales as they are the Caribbean Diaspora’s most progressive film festival group, sending our talent to all corners of the globe to be seen and enjoyed. This is their seventh annual showcase and for this they deserve a...
CaribbeanTales Announces 2012 Toronto Line-up
July 26, 2012 by JP Hodgekinson TORONTO – The Caribbean Tales Film Festival kicked off July 23 at a well-attended Media Launch at the Toronto Consulate of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago. CEO and founder Frances-Anne Solomon welcomed supporters and colleagues from the Caribbean diaspora to the 7th year of the Toronto Film Showcase, the third year of the filmmaker Incubator Program,...
June 2012
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Call For Submissions : 2012 Toronto Incubator...
This is a call for applications for the 2012 CaribbeanTales Market Incubator Program, that will take place in Toronto between Sept 4th and 9th 2012. Fifteen producers will be selected on a competitive basis to attend. About the Program: 2011 Toronto Showcase and Market Incubator | 2010 International Launch and Market Incubator. The Incubator Program was created to help producers raise...
CaribbeanTales On CUNY TV during Caribbean...
The music, history, style and poetry of the Caribbean are explored in CaribbeanTales, a series of diverse documentaries making their New York City television premieres exclusively on CUNY TV throughout the month of June 2012, coinciding with National Caribbean American Heritage Month (June) and Caribbean Week in New York (June 4-9). CUNY TV is seen in New York City on Ch. 75 (Time Warner and...
May 2012
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New York Showcase of Caribbean Shorts highlights...
CaribbeanTales New York Shorts Showcase CaribbeanTales is delighted to present some the best new films from around the region during Caribbean Week, on June 5, at 8pm, at the Marriott Marquis. The Caribbean Diaspora’s most dynamic film festival group — with bases and events in Toronto, Barbados, and New York, and partnerships across the region and the globe — celebrates the...
April 2012
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Telling Our Stories by Any Means Necessary
Event Details: Date - May 3rd 3pm. Venue - Nalis, 1st Floor, National Library Bldg,Hart & Abercromby St.,POS RSVP - 773 5061 WHO IS ULRIC CROSS? He is probably the most decorated West Indian Squadron Leader of World War Two. Ulric was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for meritorious service by an Officer of the Armed Forces during wartime in actual combat. He was...
Telling Our Stories by Any Means Necessary - An...
This year sees another fantastic groundbreaking collaboration between CaribbeanTales and the Animae Caribe Animation and New Media Festival. LETS TELL OUR STORIES BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. BRING EVERYTHING……… LETS EXPERIMENT Animation Documentary is a relatively new genre that has a very challenging premise. How can you document reality using animation, and mix media without compromising the...
RESTLESS CITY opens in the US | AFFRM
CaribbeanTales is a proud supporter of AFFRM, the African American Film Festival Releasing Movement, whose 3rd theatrical release, the extraordinary RESTLESS CITY by Nigerian filmmaker Andrew Dosunmu opens in cinemas in New York and Los Angeles on Apr 27. Join me at the box office. SUPPORT CINEMA OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA.
New York Salutes Legendary Caribbean Actress
LEONIE FORBES FILM RETROSPECTIVE FOUR FILMS! THREE DIRECTORS! ONE STAR! NEW YORK: The vision of some of the Caribbean’s most prolific filmmakers join in a New York City celebration of the illustrious career of legendary Jamaican actress, Leonie Forbes. Caribbean Classics - Leonie Forbes Film Fest features work from Lennie Little-White (Jamaica), Andrew Millington (Barbados), and...
Harry Belafonte film is a call to action.
The third in a 3-part series in which documentarist and screenwriter Wenty Bowen, explains why SING YOUR SONG is a must see for Caribbean and especially for Barbadian, audiences. Read Parts 1 and 2 here. SING YOUR SONG will have its Barbados premiere as the Opening Night Film at the CaribbeanTales 2012 Film Festival at Frank Collymore Hall on April 11th at 6pm. Advance Tickets are on sale at...
CARIBBEANTALES 2012 in the NEWZ
President’s Film Endowment Bearing Fruits NCN Guyana “Tradition”, one of the eight short films Produced under the President’s film endowment 2011 will be shown at the Caribbean tales film festival in Barbados. CARIBBEANTALES 2012 FILM Festival 10-15 April 2012 and Caribbean Young Film Professionals In Science CTA is collaborating with CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution and...
Barbados FIlm Commission in Focus at...
For Immediate Release OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESS THROUGH FILM COMMISSION TO BE IN FOCUS AT CARIBBEANTALES SYMPOSIUM Business people, government officials and visiting film commissioners will explore opportunities that the proposed Barbados Film Commission will offer when the third CaribbeanTales Symposium convenes at the Island Inn Resort, on April 13. The event entitled Caribbean Film ...
BAJAN FILM MAKERS IN CARIBBEANTALES 2012 GALA
Two Barbadian film makers – Penny Hynam and Alison Saunders – will share the spotlight during the Opening Gala of CaribbeanTales Film Festival 2012. Hynam is the producer of a ten-part series entitled, “A Day in a Bajan Life”, which features short films on the lives of “interesting but not necessarily famous Bajans”. One of those segments will be shown at next Wednesday’s screening at...
Homemakers: Passionate about film-making
“We are building a film industry. There is much work to be done. We believe it is possible. But it will take all of us, working together to make it so. All our good thinking, pooled, a coordinated exchange of skills, perspectives and resources, - a modern day Circle of Souls - to create a model that is right for our Region. And then, it will take all of our united efforts to implement it,...
SINGER/ACTIVIST HARRY BELAFONTE’S DAUGHTER COMING...
Gina Belafonte – the youngest daughter of world-famous American singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte – and the Producer of the highly regarded bio-documentary of her father’s life, will attend next week’s premiere of “Sing Your Song” in Barbados. The film is the highlight of the Opening Gala of CaribbeanTales Film Festival 2012 which is the third annual edition of...
March 2012
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Must-See Belafonte film to open CaribbeanTales...
The second in a 3-part series in which documentarist and screenwriter Wenty Bowen, explains why SING YOUR SONG is a must see for Caribbean and especially for Barbadian, audiences. Read Part 1 here. SING YOUR SONG will have its Barbados premiere as the Opening Night Gala at the CaribbeanTales 2012 Film Festival at Frank Collymore Hall on April 11th at 6pm. Tickets are on sale from...
Caribbeantales 2012 Workshops will be a Filmmakers...
The Caribbeantales 2012 Film Festival which runs from April 10 to 15 will offer a series of workshops for filmmakers and film fans that can best be described as a smorgasbord for filmmakers. The Workshops are part of the CARIBBEANTALES INCUBATOR SERIES: Activities aimed to help film/television professionals develop world-class content by honing their skills in the continuum from script...
CREATIVITY MUST EXTEND TO FINANCING
Reprinted from the Barbados Advocate 3/23/2012 By Patricia Thangaraj All stakeholders, from the respective Caribbean Governments to the private sector to film producers, must get involved if the region is going to build a self-sustaining infrastructure for the film industry. This is coming from Filmmaker and CEO of Caribbean Tales Worldwide Distribution (CTWD), Frances Anne Solomon who...
Must-See Belafonte film to open CaribbeanTales...
The first in a 3-part series in which documentarist and screenwriter Wenty Bowen, explains why SING YOUR SONG is a must see for Caribbean and especially for Barbadian, audiences. Tickets are on sale at CaribbeanTales-events.com for $20 Bdos until March 31st ($35 at the door) The highly regarded bio-documentary film, “Sing Your Song,” about singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry...
CARIBBEANTALES UNVEILS EXCITING PROGRAM OF...
Barbadians and visitors to the island will once again experience the creativity of Caribbean films and filmmaking through screenings and a range of training opportunities when the CaribbeanTales Film Festival 2012 @ Island Inn comes off from April 10 to 15. This will be the third edition of the Barbados leg of the Festival which is also held annually in Toronto and New York and is a highlight of...
MEDIA ALERT - LAUNCH OF CARIBBEANTALES 2012,...
WHO: The CaribbeanTales 2012, Barbados Steering Group - Frances-Anne Solomon, CEO; Penelope Hynam, Programmer; Alison Saunders, Symposium Producer; Patrick Cozier, Secretary General of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union; David Green, President of the Barbados Film and Video Association. WHAT: Media Launch of CaribbeanTales’ 2012 Barbados Festival WHEN: Monday, March 12, 2012 at 10am....
Join the 48HR FILM CHALLENGE!
CaribbeanTales is partnering with Flyin Monkey Films to present this Caribbean-wide Film Challenge. CALL FOR TEAM REGISTRATIONDescription An opportunity for teams of filmmakers from across the region to stretch their creativity and test their skills by creating exciting, imaginative, thought-provoking and engaging films, in just 48 hours! The challenge is open to all – from the first time...
February 2012
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CaribbeanTales @ Island Inn Barbados : CALL FOR...
Hi Everyone, For the 3rd consecutive year CaribbeanTales will be holding a festival in beautiful Barbados. The Caribbean Diaspora’s most dynamic film festival group —- with bases and events in Toronto, Barbados and New York, and partnerships across the region and the globe —- showcases Caribbean themed films of all genres. Our programming celebrates the unique voice...
Screen Time for Caribbean Tales
Reprinted from TO Live With Culture by Christopher Jones Slow and steady wins the race. That’s the approach Frances Anne Solomon, left, has taken in building Caribbean Tales Inc. into a multi-faceted organization dedicated to the creation, production and distribution of filmed stories from the Caribbean and African Diaspora. Solomon presides over the Caribbean Tales Youth Film Festival this...
January 2012
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COUNTDOWN 2 BETTER MUS COME
1-2-3 BETTER MUS COME ! CaribbeanTales and TIFF have joined forces to bring one of the most exciting new films from the Caribbean to Toronto. BETTER MUS COME will screen on Saturday Feb 4th and Sunday Feb 5th at TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of TIFF’s Black History Month Series entitled “Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora”. This is a bold and original film, described...
BETTER MUS COME - BY POPULAR DEMAND
BY POPULAR DEMAND - BETTER MUS COME - Extra tickets are available Feb 4 | Brunch/Awards/Screening | $50 Feb 4 | Screening Only | $12 Feb 5 | Youth and Community Screening | $12 Better Mus Come Feb 4 : Gala / Screening $50.00 CADFeb 4 : Screening only $12.00 CADFeb 5 : Community Screening $12.00 CAD
Gemini-nominated Filmmaker to receive T&T Award
TORONTO (January 25, 2011) – Ian Harnarine, the award winning Trinidadian-Canadian filmmaker, will receive an Award of Recognition from the Government of Trinidad & Tobago for his outstanding contribution to film, at the CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival Gala, co-hosted with TIFF, on February 4, 2012. The Gala celebrates the fiftieth anniversaries of both Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica,...
Denham Jolly -- Canadian Media Pioneer
Mr. Denham Jolly chats with his friend and business partner former Justice Romain Pitt, during an interview at his home recently. Mr Jolly a respected Jamaican-Canadian media pioneer, activist, entrepreneur and the driving force behind Toronto’s first Black radio station (Flow 93.5FM) in 2001, will be honoured on Saturday, Feb 4th at the CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival Gala Brunch co-hosted by...
CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival Gala Brunch
Media Pioneer to be honored in Black History Month
TORONTO, January 9, 2011. Denham Jolly, a well-known Jamaican-Canadian media pioneer, activist, entrepreneur and the driving force behind Toronto’s first Black radio station (Flow 93.5FM) in 2001, will be honoured on Saturday, Feb 4th at the CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival co-hosted by CaribbeanTales and TIFF. The event will also feature the Canadian premiere of award winning Jamaican...
CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival & TIFF join...
Toronto, Jan 4, 2012. The CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival (CTYFF) is partnering with TIFF to celebrate Black History Month with a fundraising Gala that recognizes the 50th Independence anniversaries of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago and includes screenings of Storm Saulter’s stunning award-winning feature film Better Mus’ Come. The celebrations will take place on February 4th and...
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Looking back -- Highlights of 2011 in pictures
Before we say good bye to the Old Year - here’s 2011 in pics… CaribbeanTales 2011 @ Island Inn, Barbados - March 14 - 20. A wonderful occasion, at the beautiful Island Inn. Many new friends made, and old friends that we were able to live and grow with… With special thanks to Island Inn Barbados, and all our sponsors and partners. Photos by Benjamin Drakes. See the...
December 2011
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Dr Keith Nurse will Speak at Distribution Forum... →
Dr Keith Nurse will Speak at Distribution Forum...
WHO: Dr Keith Nurse, Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre, University of the West Indies, and Chair of CaribbeanTales Worldwide; Frances-Anne Solomon, CEO, CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution (CTWD). WHAT: ‘How To Make Money Off Films” - # 2 in a Series of Regional Workshops Covering Principles of Film and Television Distribution in the Caribbean. WHEN: Saturday...
