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This Spring/Summer 2009, CaribbeanTales presents a fantastic program of theatre and film screenings, workshops, forums and panels all celebrating the rich diversity of contemporary Caribbean and Caribbean-Canadian culture. In July, CaribbeanTales in association with Leda Serene Films will stage the world premiere of award-winning director Frances-Anne Solomon’s new theatrical production “LOCKDOWN”, brought to audiences for the first time ever at Toronto’s largest theatre festival, The Toronto Fringe Festival (July 1st to 12th).

Also in July, the CaribbeanTales 4th Annual Film Festival (July 9th to 12th 2009), will partner with New College, University of Toronto, and U of T’s Caribbean Studies Program. This year’s festival features presentations and screenings from filmmakers and producers from Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua, the Eastern Caribbean, the UK, Africa, U.S and Canada.

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CaribbeanTales kicks off its 2009 season with a stunning line-up of film and theatrical partnerships that celebrate Caribbean-Canadian culture

Toronto – April 18, 2009

This Spring/Summer 2009, CaribbeanTales presents a fantastic program of theatre and film screenings, workshops, forums and panels all celebrating the rich diversity of contemporary Caribbean and Caribbean-Canadian culture.

“Our company is growing and naturally we are incredibly excited to be partnering with such dynamic Canadian institutions as Hot Docs, the University of Toronto, and The Fringe Festival,” said Caribbean Tales Founder and Artistic Director Frances-Anne Solomon.

In May, at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 30th to May 10th), CaribbeanTales will co-present Luciano Biotta’s extraordinary film Rise-Up, screening at Innis Town Hall on Friday, May 8th, 2009 at 7:15pm; Bloor Cinema on Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 11:59pm; and the Royal Cinema on Sunday, May 10th, 2009 at 4pm. The piece dives deep into the Kingston ghetto where reggae was born, documenting real-life interviews with local established and underground musicians including Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare.

In July, CaribbeanTales in association with Leda Serene Films will stage the world premiere of award-winning director Frances-Anne Solomon’s new theatrical production Lockdown, brought to audiences for the first time ever at Toronto’s largest theatre festival, The Toronto Fringe Festival (July 1st to 12th). Lockdown’s fictional story traces the fortunes of a group of young people held hostage during a high school lockdown. The high octane script picks apart the violence that threatens to undermine their dreams. The play stars a number of established performers including Jamaican icon Leonie Forbes (What My Mother Told Me, Lord Have Mercy, A Winter Tale), and rising Toronto actor Michael Miller (A Winter Tale, Get Rich or Die Trying) alongside a diverse ensemble of talented young performers selected through citywide auditions held across the GTA last June.

Lockdown follows the success of Solomon’s highly acclaimed feature film A Winter Tale – an emotional story about a Black Men's Support Group that comes together in a local Toronto Caribbean take-out restaurant in the wake of gun violence that takes the life of a young child. Among many prestigious international awards, most recently at FESPACO 2009 (Africa’s Oscars held biannually in Burkina Faso, West Africa), A Winter Tale was nominated for the Paul Robeson Diaspora Award and won Special Mention in this category.

Also in July, the CaribbeanTales Annual Film Festival (July 9th to 12th 2009) now in its fourth year, partners 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", features presentations and screenings from filmmakers and producers from Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua, the Eastern Caribbean, the UK, Africa, and the U.S.

This is Canada's only standalone festival offering the best of Caribbean cinema from all around the world. It will present four days of exciting film screenings, thought-provoking Talk Back sessions, industry panels, hands-on workshops, a Filmmakers’ Forum, and a Youth Day.

This year’s festival honors the award-winning career of director Euzhan Palcy, from Martinique, who became the first woman of African descent to ever direct a Hollywood Studio movie with MGM's A Dry White Season, starring Donald Sutherland, Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon. Considered by many as one of the world's most influential filmmakers, Ms. Palcy is best known for her debut feature Sugar Cane Alley, winning over 17 international prizes including the Silver Lion and Best Lead Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival, and the Cesar Award for Best First Feature Film.

CaribbeanTales founder and curator Frances-Anne Solomon is an accomplished filmmaker, writer, director and producer, whose recent projects include A Winter Tale (for Telefilm Canada/CHUM Television); Heart Beat - a documentary series profiling Caribbean-Canadian musical creators; Literature Alive a many faceted multimedia project profiling Caribbean authors; and the Gemini-nominated hit sitcom 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, web sites and events showcasing the rich heritage of Caribbean and Caribbean Diasporic heritage worldwide.

CaribbeanTales’ mandate is to foster and encourage intercultural understanding and citizen participation through the medium of film, contributing to an inclusive Canadian society.

9TH ANNUAL REELWORLD FILM FESTIVAL

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15th to SUNDAY, APRIL 19th, 2009

The ReelWorld Film Festival is Toronto’s film festival that celebrates diversity in film, video, and new media
from Canada and across the globe. Now in its
ninth year, the RWFF runs over 5 days screening an extraordinary
array of features, shorts, documentaries, music videos and
animations. Students and those in the industry can take
advantage of networking events, workshops and
programs during the festival.

Highlighting ethnic diversity, the festival offers Toronto
audiences an opportunity to see films that they may not get a chance
to experience at other festivals.
FREE Family Screening
When: Saturday, April 18th at 11am
We will shocase some shorts and an interactive with MAMA AKANBI
So come out and bring the kids!

Opening Night Gala
Wednesday, April 15th at 730pm
GOSPEL HILL by Giancarlo Esposito - in attendance
SCOTIABANK THEATRE (Formerly the Paramount), 259 Richmond St. West, (At John St, 1 Block S of Queen)
REGULAR SCREENINGS at CINEPLEX ODEON CARLTON, 20 Carlton Street, (Just E of Yonge St., on N side

For the list of films and other events with times and dates go to: http://www.reelworld.ca

For Tickets (Check reelworld.ca for box office hours):
1. Order online: reelworld.ca. Click Buy tickets.
2. Call the reelworld ticketing hotline: 1-800-595-4849
3. Visit the reelworld office: 438 Parliament Street, 2nd floor
4. Visit the Carlton cinemas Box office: April 8 -19, 20 Carlton Street

For Media inquiries,contact publicist Sasha Stoltz at: sashastoltz@bellnet.ca - 416-579-4804

CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival - Celebrating Black History Month.

Click Here to View The Festival Trailer!

Tickets are still available for the CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival, "Celebrating Black History Month"!


FESTIVAL SCREENINGS will take place from
February 13-27 2009 @ 10:00 a.m. Weekdays

@ the following locations:
Silvercity Yorkdale, 3401 Dufferin Street
Coliseum Scarborough, 300 Borough Drive
Silvercity Yonge-Eglinton, 2300 Yonge Street

Click here to view Festival Program and Schedule.

TICKET INFORMATION
Students: $7.00
Educators: Free admission per 10 students

Seats are still available for the following films::
THE ROSA PARKS STORY by Julie Dash -
A WINTER TALE by Frances-Anne Solomon -
JOURNEY TO JUSTICE by Milton Bryan and Roger MacTair
POOR BOY'S GAME by Clement Virgo
AFRICA UNITE by Stephanie Black
THE AGRONOMIST by Jonathan Demme
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST by Julie Dash
SPEAKERS FOR THE DEAD by Sudz Sutherland

BOOKING YOUR CLASS
For more information please contact:

Miki Nembhard,
ctyfilmfestival@gmail.com
416-598-1410

CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival, Celebrating Black History Month, presents its Gala Launch, featuring the Rosa Parks Story, by Julie Dash.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TORONTO – January 27, 2009

Celebrating Black History Month, renowned international director Julie Dash presents her stunning groundbreaking film, The Rosa Parks Story, at the Caribbean Tales Youth Film Festival Gala Launch. The film commemorates the late African American Civil Rights Activist Rosa Parks, whose bravery in refusing to relinquish her seat to a white person on an Alabama bus in 1955, triggered the first civil rights demonstration in the US and heralded the Modern Civil Rights Movement.

The screening takes place at the Silver City Yonge-Eglinton Centre (2300 Yonge Street) on January 29, 2009 at 6pm. CaribbeanTales is delighted that Ms. Dash will also be available after the screening for a question and answer period.

With her stunning 1991 debut feature film Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash became the first African American woman to have a movie on general theatrical release in the United States. The Library of Congress has placed Daughters of the Dust in the National Film Registry, where it joins a select group of American films preserved as National Treasures.

The Rosa Parks Story won Ms. Dash an NAACP Image Award, The Family Television Award, The New York Christopher Award and she was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement at the 55th Director's Guild of America Awards. In addition, the film received an Emmy Nomination for lead actor Angela Bassett who plays Rosa Parks in the film.

From February 13th to 27th, 2009 the Caribbean Tales Youth Film Festival will showcase a unique series of films and documentaries that tell stories about and from the African Diaspora. The festival is aimed at high school students and features a selection of classic Africentric films that expand and deepen audience's understanding of and empathy for - Canada's multicultural identities.

Other celebrated films to be screened at the festival include award-winning filmmaker, Frances Anne Solomon's critically acclaimed A Winter Tale, Julie Dash’s first feature film Daughters of the Dust; Jamaican-Canadian Director Clement Virgo's Poor Boy’s Game; Africa Unite, by Stephanie Black; Art for Social Change, by Mary Wells; Speakers for the Dead, by Sudz Sutherland; Journey to Justice, by Roger McTair and Milton Bryan; The Argronomist, by Jonathan Demme; and many more!

CaribbeanTales, a non-profit organization, is Canada's premier multimedia company that creates, markets and distributes educational films, videos, radio programs, audio books, theatre plays, web sites and events showcasing the rich heritage of the Caribbean Diaspora worldwide.

CaribbeanTales’ mandate is to foster and encourage intercultural understanding and citizen participation through the medium of film and so contribute to an inclusive Canadian society.

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Available for interviews:

Frances-Anne Solomon, Festival Founder/Curator

Julie Dash, Special Guest Director.

Festival screenings will take place from February 13 to 27, 2009 at 10am on weekdays at the following locations:

Silver City Yorkdale, (3401 Dufferin Street)

Coliseum Scarborough, (300 Borough Drive)

Silver City Yonge-Eglinton, (2300 Yonge Street)

Tickets for the Caribbean Tales Youth Film Festival are now available: $7 for students and free for educators who bring in ten students or more.

For ticket and festival inquiries, please contact Miki Nembhard at 416. 598. 1410 or ctyfilmfestival@gmail.com.

To view the full Festival program please go to www.CaribbeanTales.ca

A Winter Tale in Dominica

A Winter Tale will premiere in "the Nature Isle" Dominica, on Friday 16th January 2009, with a VIP Launch Reception and Screening at the Alliance Francaise at 7pm.

On Saturday 17th there will be a public screening at 8pm at the same venue.

The screenings are organised by Dominica's Film Commissioner Anita Bully, and sponsored by Archipelago Trading, and Sutton Place Hotel.

Peter Williams and I are both in Dominica for the weekend's event, which tomorrow will also include two school screenings and youth film workshops during the day.

My special thanks to Yvor Nassief, and Ginette Harris, for their hospitality and for making this trip posible.

For more information or to obtain tickets for any of the events, please contact Ms. Anita Bully Tel: (767) 448-2454, or at kaibully@hotmail.com

Photo: Actor Peter Williams with Mrs Anita Bully, Dominica's Film Commissioner in Roseau, Dominica.

An Invitation to attend our GALA LAUNCH

(Click on invitation to enlarge)

Tickets are now available for

CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival
GALA LAUNCH

on Thursday January 29th 2009 @ 6pm

Featuring "The Rosa Parks Story"
A film by renowned international director
JULIE DASH
(Daughters of The Dust)

Ms. Dash will join us for the Launch and Q&A after the film.

SilverCity Yonge Egnlinton
2300 Yonge St
Toronto On M4P 1E4

Tickets are $10 each,
Please email me by return if you would like to purchase tickets

Look forward very much to seeing you there!
Frances-Anne

The CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival, "Celebrating Black History Month".

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS will take place from
February 13-27 2009 @ 10:00 a.m. Weekdays

@ the following locations:
Silvercity Yorkdale, 3401 Dufferin Street
Coliseum Scarborough, 300 Borough Drive
Silvercity Yonge-Eglinton, 2300 Yonge Street

Click here to view Festival Program and Schedule.

TICKET INFORMATION
Students: $7.00
Educators: Free admission per 10 students

Tickets are still available for the following films::
THE ROSA PARKS STORY by Julie Dash -
A WINTER TALE by Frances-Anne Solomon -
JOURNEY TO JUSTICE by Milton Bryan and Roger MacTair
POOR BOY'S GAME by Clement Virgo
AFRICA UNITE by Stephanie Black
THE AGRONOMIST by Jonathan Demme
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST by Julie Dash
SPEAKERS FOR THE DEAD by Sudz Sutherland

BOOKING YOUR CLASS
For more information please contact:

Miki Nembhard,
ctyfilmfestival@gmail.com
416-598-1410