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Committed to the development of Caribbean-themed
cinema here in Canada and around the world, the 2009 CaribbeanTales Film
Festival announces its new industry workshop series.
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Canada's One and Only Forum Showcasing The
Best of Caribbean Cinema, At Home and Abroad, Classical and Creole, Digital and
Celluloid, This Year Puts The Spotlight on Caribbean Film - A Tool For
Education and Social Change
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Celebrating its fourth anniversary, the Caribbean Tales Film
Festival this year presents the
CaribbeanTales Industry Development Program (CTIDP), an initiative
that offers industry activities such as training workshops, roundtable sessions,
and panel discussions on film practice, business development and marketing, and
storytelling.
Workshops include:
Guerilla Filmmaking, a practical day-long session led by renowned Jamaican
cinematographer Franklyn ‘Chappie’ St. Juste (The Harder They Come), exploring
ways in which Caribbean heritage directors and producers can use film to tell
stories close to their heart.
Other sessions include: "Working with the NFB" by National Film Board of
Canada Producers Lea Marin and Anita Lee, "Navigating The Festival Circuit", by
international festival programmer June Givanni, "Caribbean-themed Animation" by Camille Selvon
Abrahams of Trinidad-based Animation studio Anime Caribe, and "Art for Social Change" led by veteran filmmaker
and owner/general manager of Gayelle The Channel Christopher
Laird.
Friday 10th July is YOUTH DAY, and there will be a special
edu-tainment program tailored for the interests of young people
12-18.
The CaribbeanTales
Annual Film Festival is North America's only standalone event offering the
best of Caribbean cinema from around the world. It will take place over four
exciting days from July 9th to 12th
2009, at the William Doo Auditorium (45 Willcocks Street),
New College, University of Toronto.
With the
support of the Canada Council for the Arts and in partnership with
New College, University of Toronto and U of T’s Caribbean Studies
Program, this year’s theme, Caribbean Film – A Tool for
Education and Social Change,
brings together filmmakers and producers from Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica,
Barbados, Antigua, the Eastern Caribbean, the UK, Africa, the U.S., and
Canada.
The Festival this year honors the career of
award-winning international director Euzhan Palcy from Martinique,
who became the first woman of African descent to direct a Hollywood movie, with
MGM’s A Dry White Season (1989), starring Donald Sutherland, Marlon
Brando and Susan Sarandon.
The Caribbean Tales Film
Festival is founded by award-winning director,
filmmaker, and producer Frances-Anne Solomon whose last
feature film A Winter Tale
(for Telefilm Canada/CHUM Television) won many prestigious international awards,
including most recently Special Mention in the Diaspora Category at the 2009 Fespaco Festival (Africa's
Oscars, held biannually in Burkina Faso, West Africa).
She is the
president and artistic director of the two companies she created: Leda Serene Films and CaribbeanTales , whose
selected projects include HeartBeat – a
documentary series profiling Caribbean musical creators; Literature Alive , a many
facetted multimedia project profiling Caribbean authors; and the
Gemini-nominated Lord Have
Mercy! , Canada’s landmark multicultural sitcom, for Vision TV , Toronto1, APTN and
Showcase.
CaribbeanTales is Canada’s
premier multimedia company that creates, markets and distributes educational
films, videos, radio programs, audio books, theatre plays, websites and events,
that showcase the rich heritage of Caribbean Diaspora worldwide.
CaribbeanTales ’ mandate is
to foster and encourage intercultural understanding and citizen participation
through the medium of film, contributing to an inclusive Canadian
society.
Photo:
Director Euzhan Palcy from Martinique, our Special Guest this
year.
For more information please contact:
Miki Nembhard,
Festival Coordinator
CaribbeanTales
99 Gore Vale Avenue
Toronto ON M6J 2R5
www.caribbeantales.ca
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416-598-1410
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