CaribbeanTales

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CaribbeanTales is a multimedia company based in Toronto, Canada, that produces educational films, videos, radio programs, audio books, theatre plays and websites drawing on Caribbean culture. It was formed by filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon.

Projects include CaribbeanTales.ca, an e-newsletter featuring profiles of Caribbean storytellers, cultural commentary, news and events; Literature Alive, a multi-facetted multimedia project that includes documentaries, audio books, a series of radio programs for CBC and an educational website, all profiling Canadian Caribbean authors; My Voice…My Story…a Writing Contest for young people Grades 9-12, the CaribbeanTales Annual Film Festival, and more.


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LiteratureAlive, launched in December 2004, is a multi-facetted cross-platform project comprised of documentaries, audio books, radio programmes, and an edutainment website, about modern Caribbean writing and authors.

Literature Alive Documentaries: 20 half-hour documentaries that profile Caribbean authors from the 60's through the hip-hop generation.

Coming Home: Documentary feature on Indo-Caribbean author Ramabai Espinet.

Literature Alive Audio Books: Funded by the Trillium Foundation, Season 1 comprised of unabridged readings of the following works:

Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson Gardening In The Tropics by Olie Senior The Swinging Bridge by Ramabai Espinet This Body by Tessa McWatt My Mother's Last Dance by Honor Ford-Smith

LiteratureAliveOnline: is an educational website on 26 Canadian/Caribbean authors.

LiteratureAlive on CBC Radio: Five radio documentaries profiling Caribbean Authors.

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