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Toronto based British-Canadian filmmaker, writer, producer, and distributor Frances-Anne Solomon joins forces with a formidable team of women to tell the story of Claudia Jones. The pivotal role played by the British-Trinidadian journalist and activist Claudia Jones in launching the world’s largest street festival, the Notting Hill Carnival, will be the focus of a new…

Journalist and founder of Notting Hill Carnival, Claudia Jones, is to be celebrated in a new film depicting her life. The film, Claudia, follows Jones’s life as an activist and how fierce racial tension in the UK led her to plan an event which today is Europe’s largest outdoor festival. Leading the production is acclaimed…

Frances-Anne Solomon is set to direct, produce and co-write the feature film about pioneering British-Trinidadian journalist and activist Claudia Jones. Toronto-based CaribbeanTales Media Group, U.K.-based Greenacre Films and Trindad and Tobago and South Africa-based Imagine Media International have teamed up to develop Claudia – a feature film about pioneering journalist and activist Claudia Jones (pictured)…

THE LIFE of journalist and Notting Hill Carnival founder Claudia Jones will be celebrated in a new film from director Frances-Anne Solomon. The UK’s Greenacre Films has joined forces with an international team of filmmakers to pay tribute to the activist who is credited with launching what is today Europe’s largest street festival. Set in…

The pivotal role played by British-Trinidadian journalist and activist Claudia Jones in launching the world’s largest street festival, the Notting Hill Carnival, is the focus of a new Canada-UK co-production. Leading the production is acclaimed Canadian director Frances-Anne Solomon (Hero: Inspired by the Extraordinary Life and Times of Mr. Ulric Cross). The film will be…

The pivotal role played by British-Trinidadian journalist and activist Claudia Jones in launching the world’s largest street festival, the Notting Hill Carnival, is the focus of a new Canada-UK co-production. Leading the production is acclaimed Canadian director Frances-Anne Solomon (Hero: Inspired by the Extraordinary Life and Times of Mr. Ulric Cross). The film will be…

The movie HERO: Inspired by The Extraordinary Life & Times of Mr. Ulric Cross, is heading to Showtime. The movie, directed by award-winning filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon, will air on SHOxBET on November 11 at 7 am ET and is currently available on demand. HERO premiered in 2018 at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, winning…

The pivotal role played by British-Trinidadian journalist and activist Claudia Jones in launching the world’s largest street festival, the Notting Hill Carnival, is the focus of a new Canada-UK co-production. Leading the production is acclaimed Canadian director Frances-Anne Solomon (Hero: Inspired by the Extraordinary Life and Times of Mr. Ulric Cross). The film will be…

Trinidadian filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon feels incredibly honoured to be a member of the executive committee of the directors’ branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Most people associate it with the star-studded televised movie awards, the Oscars. But the academy’s main goal is the advancement of moviemaking across genres, and through innovation…

Toronto (ON) – Award-winning director Frances-Anne Solomon will now be a part of the elite group reviewing candidates for an invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization responsible for the Oscars. Solomon received the news this week that she had been selected for the Directors Branch Executive Committee in…