Frances-Anne Solomon joins Angie Seth on CTV News to discuss the transformative and promising nature of award shows. Things are finally looking up as a result of the “reckoning” that took place across all industries in 2020 and there is hope that this time, the...
Frances-Anne Solomon sits down with CTV News Anchor Angie Seth to discuss the push for diversity and representation in the industry and how, as a member of the executive committee of the directors’ branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she has...
Claudia Jones ‑ political activist, journalist and revolutionary – is the subject of a new film from acclaimed film-maker, producer and director Frances-Anne Solomon. The biopic, Claudia, will honour Jones for her fight against intolerance, inequality and oppression…...
IT’S WONDERFUL seeing Regina King, Chloe Zhao and Michaela Coel taking their well-deserved place at the SAG and Golden Globe Award nominations. As a film director who is also a Black woman, I celebrate this moment and their achievements. Their recognition vindicates all of us...
Frances-Anne Solomon is honoured to have been selected for The Directors Branch Executive Committee Of The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. Solomon is confident in the strides the Academy is making towards diversification and is proud to form a part of a more...
Frances-Anne Solomon is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, producer, curator, and entrepreneur in film, TV, radio, theatre, and new media. Born in England to Trinidadian parents, she was raised and educated in the Caribbean and Canada before moving to Great Britain where she has built a...
Trinidadian-Canadian filmmaker, writer, producer, and distributor Frances-Anne Solomon talks about her life as a third-culture-kid, her pathway into filmmaking, why she created her movie HERO and the creation of Caribbean Tales....
Toronto based British-Canadian filmmaker, writer, producer, and distributor Frances-Anne Solomon joins forces with a formidable team of women to tell the story of Claudia Jones. The pivotal role played by the British-Trinidadian journalist and activist Claudia Jones in launching the world’s largest street festival, the...
Journalist and founder of Notting Hill Carnival, Claudia Jones, is to be celebrated in a new film depicting her life. The film, Claudia, follows Jones’s life as an activist and how fierce racial tension in the UK led her to plan an event which today...