Toronto – December 11th 2009Following a string of successful North American festival premieres, theatrical releases, and international awards Frances-Anne Solomon’s acclaimed feature film A Winter Tale comes to television audiences across Canada. The film, which features a talented ensemble cast led by Canadian star Peter Williams, rising Toronto actor Michael Miller, and famed Jamaican actrsss and Gemini nominee Leonie Forbes, will have its Canadian television premiere on Bravo! Canada on December 17th at 9pm.
Written, directed and produced by Frances-Anne 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 sensitively explores the psychological effects of the universally relevant issues of urban "Black on Black" violence, the film beautifully captures the day-to-day emotional struggles of this group of men, and a community under seige.
Over the past 18 months A Winter Tale has travelled the world, garnering rave reviews and international recognition through film festivals and cinema releases in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, New York, Los Angeles Africa, the Caribbean, and the UK.
Most recently it won recognition at Fespaco (Africa's Oscars held biannually in Burkina Faso, West Africa). Other awards include Outstanding Canadian Feature Film Award at the ReelWorld Film Festival, as well as the top awards at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, the Zuma International Film Festival (Nigeria), and many others.
A Winter Tale was developed through a collaborative improvisational process by Vancouver-based theatre director Michele Lonsdale Smith and Frances-Anne Solomon, working together with an extraordinary team of experienced and emerging Canadian and international actors, including Trinidad and Tobago's Dennis "Sprangalang" Hall, and Canada's Valerie Buhagiar.
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SELECTED REVIEWS OF A WINTER TALE:
Caribbean Release - 2008
Television stars in Antigua for debut of acclaimed film - 19 May 2008
The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0 - May 18, 2008
A Caribbean filmmaker - May 18th 2008
`A Winter Tale` To Open In Trinidad &
Winter Tale cast arrives for premiere - May 9 2008
Tale of Racism and Healing - May 3 2008
‘A Winter Tale’ impresses Jamaica audiences - April 13, 2008
'A Winter Tale' tells of manly chill -
Peter Williams finds 'Wright' role in 'A Winter Tale - April 6, 2008'
'A Winter Tale' makes Jamaican debut - Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - April 6 2008
Peter Williams finds 'Wright' role in 'A Winter Tale' - Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - April 5 2008
'Winter' in April - Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - April 5 2008
‘Winter Tale’ makes TT debut - Trinidad News,
Leonie Forbes - On becoming myself - Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - March 30 2008
A Winter Tale, starring Leonie Forbes, heads to Jamaican theatres - February 28, 2008
Trinidadian Migrant`s Film Makes BAM Screening Again - February26, 2008
Canada Press
Film examines poverty, gun crime - The Guardian - Etobicoke, 07 February 2008
Something to talk out -
Watching and talking about violence in
A Winter Tale Tells Our Story - Community Contact - August 30 2007
Stepping Up in A Time Of Sorrow - Montreal Gazette - August 29 2007
Capsule Reviews of Selected 2007 WFF Films - Montreal Gazette - August 24 2007
Expose - A Winter Tale is pure fireworks
A Winter Tale: An Interview with Frances-Anne Solomon - April 9 2007
This Weekend "A Winter Tale" opens at Rainbow Cinema Woodbine ...
A Winter Tale - The Movie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flickr: Photos from frances-anne solomon
A Winter Tale by Frances-Anne Solomon’s Vox :::::: VUVOX
Today@York: A Winter Tale screening - Confronting violence through ...
More News: Free screening of A Winter Tale will be followed by an ...
The Movie that is creating a buzz in Toronto, A Winter Tale
Weather is right for A Winter Tale
WE FILM - A WINTER TALE
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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.
Peter Williams, Jamaican-Canadian film and television star, plays Gene in A Winter Tale. Williams' film credits include Catwoman, Chronicles of Riddick and Stargate SG-1.
Leonie Forbes has graced the silver screen in major Hollywood pictures, performed in dozens of theatrical productions, and has worked as a radio broadcaster and programmer in Jamaica. Her selected credits include:Old Story Time, Arawak Gold, Champagne and Sky Juice, and Smile Orange. Her film and television credits include: Shattered Image, Milk and Honey, Passion and Paradise, What My Mother Told Me, and Children of Babylon.
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