CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival

Vol 1 No 2

October 31st 2009

Tickets are now available for our Gala Launch, and we hope you will join us. Date: Thursday January 21st 2010 @ 6.30pm. Featuring “Invisible City” (Winner of the Best Canadian Documentary Award at Hot Docs 2009), and “Hardwood”, from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis. Mr. Davis will join us for the Launch and to introduce his award-winning films.  Venue: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks St. Toronto.  Tickets are $20 each, Look forward to seeing you there!

Frances-Anne Solomon, Artistic Director, Founder

The full festival program is here.

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“I’ve been a broadcaster since I went to work for Foster Hewitt’s CKFH in Toronto when I was still a teen-ager. I’m still connected as a director of Denham Jolly’s Flow 93.5 radio station in Toronto. Along the way I’ve done everything there was to do in front of and behind the microphones and cameras, from anchoring the CBC TV Edmonton supper hour to being CEO of a national television network.

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by Jean Hodgkinson

Dashing into a local coffee shop on Danforth just west of Coxwell, in the heart of his old east-end Toronto stomping grounds, Charles Officer looks around as though worried I’ve arrived and, not having seen him, departed already. Making the most of his time in between west coast shoots for his new film, a National Film Board documentary on Vancouver sprinter Harry Jerome, missed opportunities can be costly and a smile of relief crosses his face when he realizes he’s mistaken.

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During her final year of a BA in Women’s Studies and African Studies at U of T in 1996, Dawn Wilkinson took a one-week filmmaking workshop in Mount Forest, Ontario, that persuaded her to pursue a life behind the camera. The young writer had been crafting plenty of fiction and literary criticism in her classes, but, at the screening of her five-minute film, she was floored by the “immediacy” of the response. “Seeing people connect to my story was something I’d never fully experienced with my writing.”

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What an outpouring of responses to Nicole Brooks’ fitting tribute to legendary Canadian producer Claire Prieto. The article went viral and did the rounds of the Black filmmaking community. Claire, we love you. We honor you. I hope you can hear the chorus of voices. Here are some of them, along with links to the original posts.

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CaribbeanTales is looking for writers, videographers, and video editors to join our intrepid army of cultural warriors intent on documenting Canadian film and life from an Africentric perspective.

Are you an Africentric or diverse artist looking for a vehicle for your personal musings, a way to recognise those leaders and visionaries in your community who have touched and supported you, a platform to acknoledge the exploding new generation of talented creative entrepreneurs coming up through the ranks in our city? Write to me at francesanne@ledaserene.ca, we can use your power.

Frances-Anne – Editor.