Frances-Anne Solomon – Founder, Director
Frances-Anne Solomon is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and producer in film, TV, radio, theatre, and new media. Born in England of Trinidadian parents, she was raised and educated in the Caribbean and Canada before moving to Great Britain where she built a successful career with the BBC as a TV Drama Producer and Executive Producer. Since her return to Toronto in 2000, she has continued to create, write, direct, and produce her own projects. Her most recent film, A Winter Tale, has received many prestigious international awards, including most recently at FESPACO 2009 (Africa’s Oscars held biannually in Burkina Faso West Africa) where it was nominated for, and won Special Mention in The Paul Robeson Diaspora Category.
Mary Wells – Associate Director, Festival Co-ordinator
Mary Wells is an independent Director, Writer Producer based in Jamaica.
She has worked for Gov’t Broadcasting, US cable TV, a private production company and has some twenty years experience in television and film production. She is constantly doing production work of all kinds and has developed, produced and directed programs for mainly the Caribbean region, specialising in many documentary works. She studied in the USA, did Television Production and Theatre Arts and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the George Washington University, Wash DC, 1982.
Her first feature film “Kingston Paradise” has just wrapped pre-production, and is destined for screens later this year.
Lisa Wickham – Associate Director
Media Producer-Director-TV Personality, Lisa Wickham is the CEO of Imagine Media International Limited, a multi-media production and event management entity based in Trinidad and Tobago. She is also the founder-publisher of E-Zone the Mag! and the Caribbean Film and Media Academy.
Ms. Wickham is an Alumna of the Warwick Business School, UK (MBA with Distinction), University of the West Indies (BSc. Hons), Wirschaft Universität, Vienna, Austria, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, the London Film Academy and the University of Oxford, Said Business School, Executive Development Programmes. She has published in a number of business journals and newspapers and has conducted a number of motivational sessions and workshops on request,- throughout the Caribbean, for schools, organizations, Government community projects and the Trinidad & Tobago Defence Force.
Mitzi Allen – Associate Director
Mitzi Allen has been working in the media for the past 25 years as a broadcast journalist and producer. Her career began in television in Toronto, with CTV Canada as a reporter/news anchor then continued in Antigua & Barbuda with various media organizations before she joined her husband as co-owner of HAMA Productions, an independent film and television production company.
She is the producer of three feature films, The Sweetest Mango, No Seed, and Diablesse along with a number of television programmes, including the children’s television program Pet Playhouse for the Humane Society of Antigua and Barbuda.
Monique Young- Festival Co-ordinator
Monique is an aspiring film and television producer who recently returned to the region to be a part of the burgeoning local industry.
A Jamaican-Canadian, Monique graduated from Ryerson University’s Radio and Television Arts program in Toronto, Canada. Since then she has interned at several independent and boutique film production companies as an assistant in research and pre-production, administration and production office, as well as marketing and promotions.
Although a baby in the industry Monique’s belief in the Caribbeans ability to forge a legitimate film and television broadcasting industry has brought her to Barbados. She firmly supports the development and promotion of local cultural identity through film and television. This, in her view, is most important especially for the youth in the region.
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Sungs tops! need moe exposoure here though.
Fuss toime mi ah ‘ear bout ollyuh is now!
By: errol ross brewster on February 11, 2010
at 8:44 pm