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19 Mar CARIBBEANTALES AND DIRECTOR FRANCES-ANNE SOLOMON ANNOUNCE DEVELOPMENT OF DENHAM JOLLY’S MEMOIR IN THE BLACK

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Toronto-based CaribbeanTales Media Group has announced that it has begun work on a feature film based on the award-winning memoir In the Black by one of Canada’s most respected entrepreneurs, Denham Jolly. The feature development is supported by the Harold Greenberg Fund and the Telefilm Development...

19 Mar FRANCES-ANNE SOLOMON AND HERO ACTOR NICKOLAI SALCEDO ON L.A’S IMPACT RADIO

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While in Los Angeles for the Pan African Film Festival, director Frances-Anne Solomon and actor Nickolai Salcedo dropped by KPFK 90.7’s IMpact show with host Pamela Asobo Anchang to talk about Hero, Racism within the Race and Pan Africanism and the Caribbean....

16 Mar CARIBBEAT: FILM ON BIG BUSINESS

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“In the Black” — the amazing memoir about Canadian businessman Denham Jolly founding that nation’s first black radio station — is soon to become an amazing film by director Frances-Anne Solomon. Solomon announced recently that she has begun work on a feature film based on...

14 Mar HERO TAKES TOP HONOURS AT PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL

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HERO, the highly acclaimed feature film inspired by the extraordinary life and times of Trinidad and Tobago citizen, diplomat and judge Ulric Cross, won the newly created Ja’Net Feature Narrative Award at the 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF), held recently in West...

13 Mar DENHAM JOLLY’S STORY TO BE MADE INTO A FEATURE FILM

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Filmmaker and head of the CaribbeanTales Film Festival, Francis Anne Solomon announced this week that she has begun work on a feature film based on the book In the Black, the autobiography of businessman Denham Jolly. Jolly is best known as the founder of Canada’s first...

11 Mar HISTORICAL TALE OPENS THIS YEAR’S BIFF

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Frances-Anne Solomon did not know Ulric Cross’s story but…..the request to make a film about him came from her mother. And so she started on a quest which ultimately led to Hero. It opens the Bermuda International Film Festival on March 20. “The story came to me...

07 Mar STARS SHINE ON OPENING NIGHT AT PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL

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"Art is our voice resonating about who we are and where we stand in the world and how we intend to use ourselves to change the world," said actor Danny Glover, at the opening night of the 28th annual Pan African Film Festival. "That’s what films...

28 Feb HERO WINS NEWLY CREATED JA’NET FEATURE NARRATIVE IN LA

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Frances Anne Solomon's film HERO has been awarded the newly created Ja’Net Feature Narrative Award, renamed in honor of PAFF co-founder, Ja'Net Dubois. The award was bestowed on the film following a sold-out Opening Night of the 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival, (PAFF) with...

27 Feb CARIBBEAN DIRECTOR FRANCES-ANNE SOLOMON’S HERO TAKES TOP HONORS AT LA’S PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL

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News Americas, TORONTO, Canada, Thurs. Feb. 27, 2020: Following a sold-out Opening Night of the 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival, (PAFF) with more than 1000 patrons at the Director’s Guild of America in West Hollywood, and two subsequent packed screenings, Frances-Anne Solomon’s HERO...

27 Feb FRANCES-ANNE SOLOMON AND NICKOLAI SALCEDO TALK HERO, PAN AFRICAN FILM FEST

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Ayuko Babu is the heart and soul of the Pan African Film Festival. He made his annual trip to the Wave to talk about this year’s festival and he brought along filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon, writer, producer and director of this year’s opening night film "Hero"....