CaribbeanTales

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CaribbeanTales is a not-for-profit educational company that aims to showcase caribbean culture traditional and contemporary, local and diasporic, through producing and distributing a range of multimedia projects, including films, videos, radio programs, audio books, theatre plays, websites and events. It was founded by filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon, and is based in Toronto Canada.

Projects include the CaribbeanTales Annual Film Festival, TALK IT OUT, a Canada-wide community distribution project of Frances-Anne Solomon's feature film A Winter Tale; 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.

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TALK IT OUT is a Canada-wide community distribution project for the film A Winter Tale It will target urban youth and multicultural communities and is scheduled for February 2008.

The CaribbeanTales Annual Film Festival: The third annual festival, titled Fokus Jamaica will highlight films and filmmakers from the Caribbean island of Jamaica, scheduled for July 10 - 13, 2008. The opening night will include a screening of Stephanie Black's Africa Unite. In attendance for workshops, Q&A, and live interview sessions will be Delroy Lindo, Oliver Samuels, Ras Kassa, Tonya Lee Williams, Clement Virgo and Leonie Forbes.

Last year turned a spotlight on film from Trinidad and Tobago, and honored legendary filmmaker Horace Ove, CBE. The festival also featured a spotlight on Trinidad's Gayelle - The Channel, and screened films by local as well as diasporic filmmakers of Trinidadian heritage.

LiteratureAlive, launched in March 2005, is a multi-facetted cross-platform project comprising 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.

Literature Alive includes: - Coming Home: A 1 hr Documentary feature on Indo-Caribbean author Ramabai Espinet. - Literature Alive Audio Books: Funded by the Trillium Foundation, Season 1 comprises unabridged dramatic 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.