‘Winter Tale’ makes TT debutTuesday, April 1 2008
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A poster for the award-winning film, A Winter Tale...
HOT ON the heels of its successful Jamaican theatrical release, Frances-Anne Solomon’s award-winning feature film A Winter Tale will make its next stop in Trinidad and Tobago.
Last September, the film took home the People’s Choice Award for Best Caribbean Feature at the 2007 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. A Winter Tale features a brilliant cast including Trinidadian comedian and actor Dennis “Sprangalang” Hall and famed Jamaican icon Leonie Forbes. It will open here in Trinidad in May.
A Winter Tale’s TT premiere marks the second stop in a string of several theatrical releases scheduled to take place across the Caribbean. Throughout June and July the film will continue to travel across the region, opening at cinemas in Barbados, Antigua and St Lucia.
Written, directed and produced by Solomon, A Winter Tale tells the moving story of a black men’s support group that forms at a local Caribbean takeaway restaurant after a young boy is killed by a stray bullet. With a plot that revolves around the universal issues of gun violence and drug use, the film beautifully captures the day-to-day emotional struggles of this group of individuals.
Over the past year A Winter Tale has travelled the world, garnering rave reviews and international recognition through film festivals in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, New York, Trinidad and England.
It won the Outstanding Canadian Feature Film Award at the prestigious ReelWorld Film Festival in April 2007, and in November the film was selected to open the 15th annual African Diaspora Film Festival in Manhattan. While in New York, Leonie Forbes’ illustrious career was honoured by the local Jamaican Community.
Frances-Anne Solomon is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, director and producer. She is the president and artistic director of the two companies she founded: Leda Serene Films and CaribbeanTales, and has also worked as a film and television drama producer for the BBC.
Recent projects include A Winter Tale (for Telefilm Canada/CHUM Television); Heart Beat (Bravo!) which profiles Caribbean musical creators; Literature Alive, a multi-facetted multimedia project profiling Caribbean authors; and the Gemini-nominated Lord Have Mercy!, Canada’s landmark multicultural sitcom, for Vision TV, Toronto1, APTN and Showcase.
CaribbeanTales, a non-profit organisation, is Canada’s premier multimedia company producing educational films, videos, radio programmes, audio books, theatre plays, websites and events that showcase the rich heritage of Caribbean culture worldwide.
Dennis “Sprangalang” Hall is a popular comedian, historian, producer and singer/composer from Trinidad. He has previously worked with CaribbeanTales in the Gemini-nominated sitcom Lord Have Mercy!
