The CaribbeanTales International Film Festival is an annual
film festival, staged in
Toronto,
Ontario. The festival programs a lineup of films from
Caribbean
The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
countries, as well as films from the Caribbean diaspora in Canada.
The festival was launched in 2006 by filmmaker
Frances-Anne Solomon
Frances-Anne Solomon (born 28 June 1966) is an English-Caribbean-Canadian filmmaker, writer, producer, and distributor. She has lived in Britain, Barbados and Toronto, Canada.
Biography
Born in England of Trinidadian parents, who had gone to Br ...
, through her CaribbeanTales Media Group production firm. In 2009, the festival also launched a separate sister event for youth films, staged during
Black History Month. In 2013, it launched CaribbeanTales TV, a
video on demand streaming service dedicated to Caribbean films.
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'', September 10, 2020.
The event is normally staged at Toronto's
Royal Cinema. Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the 2020 festival was staged online through CaribbeanTales TV.
[
The festival also sponsors an incubator program to fund film projects by emerging filmmakers within the Caribbean diaspora."Pounder supports CaribbeanTales"]
''Jamaica Observer
''Jamaica Observer'' is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica. The publication is owned by Butch Stewart, who chartered the paper in January 1993 as a competitor to Jamaica's oldest daily paper, ''The Gleaner''. Its founding editor i ...
'', November 18, 2019.
References
External links
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Black Canadian film festivals
Film festivals in Toronto
Film festivals established in 2006
2006 establishments in Ontario
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