CaribbeanTales International Film Festival Launches our LEGACY edition with screenings and talkback!

Please Join Us….

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Please join us for our

Media Launch, Program Reveal

and Special Preview Screening

Our 2017 Program Lineup will be revealed!

Speakers:

The Hon. Dr. Jean Augustine, Board Member of CaribbeanTales Inc.
John Reid, CEO, Cable&Wireless/FLOW, Lead Sponsor
Frances-Anne Solomon, Executive Director, CTFF
Nicole Brooks, CaribbeanTales Market Incubator Manager

FEATURED SCREENING

â€œA CARIBBEAN DREAMâ€ by Shakirah Bourne,

the Barbadian fantasy adaptation of a Midsummerâ€™s Night Dream

Produced by Melissa Simmons and Lynette Eastmon,

View Trailer here

This beautiful re-imagining of Shakespeareâ€™s magical fairy tale is set modern day, under a full moon and during a Caribbean Festival in Barbados. Mystery and magic, comedy and chaos ensue!

The Screenings will be followed by a TALK-BACK with directors Shakirah Bourne and Sharon Lewis,

moderated by Artist, Designer and Art Educator, Quentin VerCetty, co-founder of Black Future Month and the Black Speculative Arts Movement – Toronto chapter.

This event is free for credentialed media.

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We can’t wait to see you!

Cheers,

The CaribbeanTales Team.

-AND WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT-

A SNEAK PEEK BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF

BROWN GIRL BEGINS by Sharon Lewis

An afrofuturist feature film

Inspired by Nalo Hopkinsonâ€™s award winning novel â€œBROWN GIRL IN THE RING”

Join us for a sneak peek at the team and the process that it took to bring this feature film to the screen.

Itâ€™s 2049 in the Burn, and the poor have been deported to an island off the mainland of Toronto. The forsaken islanders turn to young Ti-Jeanne and her Caribbean mystical spirits to save them, but to possess her powers she must undergo a possession that could kill her, but if she doesnâ€™t her people will die.

Join us on Thursday July 6th at 6:30pm

Location:
The Royal Cinema
608 College Street
Toronto, ON M6G 1B4

There will be a talkback after the screening with the two wonderful directors: Shakirah Bourne (pictured below left) and Sharon Lewis (pictured below right), moderated by Artist, Designer and Art Educator, Quentin VerCetty, a co-founder of Black Future Month and the Black Speculative Arts Movement – Toronto chapter.

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Directed by Shakirah Bourne.
Produced by Melissa Simmonds and Lynette Eastmond.
Barbados, 2016.

Shakespeareâ€™s romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream is re-set in Barbados and brought into the 21st Century where Theseus and Hippolyta are returning nationals, come home to be married during Crop Over. The islandâ€™s history, folklore, culture and landscape lend themselves wonderfully to the mysticism and chaos that ensue.

Directed by Sharon Lewis
Produced by Jenn Paul, Floyd Kane, Vince Buda
Canada, 2017.

Premiere Viewing of: TRAILER and BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE!

In 2049 the poor are confined to an island off the mainland of Toronto renamed The Burn. Ti-Jeanne, a reluctant priestess, must resurrect Caribbean spirits and survive the possession ritual that killed her mother or her people will die.