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| L-R: Frances-Anne Solomon, Bruce Paddington, Carla Foderingham (CEO TTFC), Horace Ove,
Chris Pinheiro, Georgia Popplewell, Yao Ramesar, Christopher Laird. Photo by Georgia Popplewell. | | | Friday, July 13th – Sunday, July 15th, 2007 Venues: NFB MEDIATHEQUE, 150 John Street & WORKMAN THEATRE, 1001 Queen Street West
Tickets: $5.00 per screening, $30.00 for a festival pass
Info: (416) 598-1410 2007 CaribbeanTales Film Festival Sponsors | Spotlight on Trinidad and Tobago!
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Horace Ove, British-Trinidadian film legend, screens Dream to Change the World, on activist/publisher John La Rose (middle), flanked by Trinidadian novelist Sam Selvon (L) and Jamaican writer Andrew Salkey (R). | The CaribbeanTales 2nd Annual Film Festival is under the patronage of the Toronto Consulate General of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Trinidad & Tobago Film Company Limited. After its successful inaugural year, the CaribbeanTales Film Festival lineup will highlight some of the biggest Trinidadian talents to hit North America, such as Julien "Lil X" Lutz. Critically acclaimed for his cinematic style and vivid imagination, Lutz has directed over 100 music videos and commercials, and worked with a host of celebrities such as P. Diddy, Usher, Sean Paul and Alicia Keys.
The festival will feature films by legendary British-Trinidadian director Horace Ove, whose groundbreaking 1975 film Pressure documented the growing frustrations of Britain's black and Caribbean communities at the time, and Robert Yao Ramesar, whose recent feature Sista God opened at TIFF last year, and who represents a new generation of local Caribbean filmmakers.
Additionally, the spotlight will be turned on the phenomenon of local TV station Gayelle the Channel, that features 100% local content, and reaches over a million viewers internationally through live Internet streaming. The festival will also highlight the contributions of Canadian-based Trinidadian filmmakers like award-winning video artist Richard Fung, respected producer Claire Prieto, Frances-Anne Solomon, and many more. A series of workshops will take place, focusing on Sitcoms & Series, Caribbean Animation, and the New Media. Each workshop will include a short screening followed by an informal discussion with special guest participants.
The festival will also host the Official Launch of a wide-ranging and ambitious Community Outreach program of Frances-Anne Solomon’s award-winning feature film A Winter Tale. This moving drama, which explores the timely issues of gun violence and its troubling effects on Toronto’s multicultural communities, will be used to promote discussion and awareness of anti-violence strategies for young people across Canada. The launch will include a special screening of A Winter Tale, followed by a Q&A session with Solomon and her cast. The program of films will be co-curated by Frances-Anne Solomon, Artistic Director of CaribbeanTales, and Bruce Paddington, Programmer of the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival. With a growing international awareness of the Caribbean's burgeoning media industry, the festival aims to entertain and educate through a series of industry panels, filmmakers' discussions, and presentations on both historical and contemporary filmmaking in Trinidad and Tobago, and throughout the diaspora.
Several filmmakers, both local and international, will be in attendance to participate in discussions and Q&As on their work.
The CaribbeanTales 2nd Annual Film Festival is generously sponsored by: Eye Weekly, Titan Tours, Caribbean Airlines, FLOW 93.5 FM, NFB Mediatheque, The Canadian Immigrant, CKLN 88.1 FM, CIUT 89.5 FM, CHRY 105.5 FM, CaribWorldNews.com, Caribbean TV 1, @Wallace Studios, MyMediaBiz.com, Gayelle the Channel, Steam Whistle Brewing, Harlem Restaurant, Irie Food Joint, Island Foods, Planet Crystal Sports Bar and Restaurant, S.M. Jaleel & Co. Ltd, Tropical Treets, the Jamaica National Building Society and Chelsea Foods.
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