The event is set for this evening, Tuesday, February 23rd from 6 p.m. AST at the Frank Collymore Hall and will feature special presentations by writer George Lamming, as well as screenings of several films.
They include `Trapped In An Elevator` by Barbados` own Rommel Hall, `The Power of the Vagina` by T&T filmmaker Jimmel Daniel and Canadian/Trinidadian filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon`s audience favourite `A Winter Tale.`
Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 24th, there will be a 1-day Symposium on Global Distribution, hosted by One Caribbean Media and featuring contributions by leading international players in the distribution field including representatives from Time Warner, the South African Broadcasting Corporation and Rogers Television.
The festival will continue throughout the week with events taking place at the Savannah Hotel
and screenings at Olympus Theatres, Sheraton Mall, ending on March 2nd, 2010.
The CaribbeanTales Film Festival is founded by accomplished Toronto-based Trinidadian filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon, whose most recent award-winning feature film A Winter Tale has won international acclaim, and who has been a visiting lecturer at UWI over the past year.The Best of CaribbeanTales Film Festival 2010 has partnered with many local and regional organizations including; The Tourism Development Corporation, Invest Barbados, One Caribbean Media, The Nation Newspapers, Starcom, the Shridath Ramphal Center at UWI, the National Cultural Foundation, The Commonwealth Foundation, Unido, Carib Export, the Caribbean Channel, the Barbados Film and Video Association, the Caribbean Film and Media Academy, the Bajan Reporter, Merville Lynch Productions, Alison Saunders and Rivelino Simmons among others.
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