The coronavirus has interrupted many events this summer and forced organizers to adapt to the new rules of social distancing. Many events have moved online, and recently the CaribbeanTales Film Festival (CTFF) has also done the same as it will be celebrating 15 years of talented,...
Canadian filmmaker and recently the feature for our Women Empowered section, Frances-Anne Solomon, received an award for her film HERO which showcased at the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) in Los Angeles. HERO was awarded the newly created Ja’Net Feature Narrative Award, renamed in honor of...
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...
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....
“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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...