CaribbeanTales Movie Competition Celebrates 20 Years of Massive, Daring, Sensible Filmmaking and Dr. Jean Augustine 88th Birthday and Awards Night time
The CaribbeanTales Worldwide Movie Competition (CTFF), North America’s premier occasion showcasing Caribbean and diaspora cinema, proudly proclaims its twentieth anniversary version, going down Wednesday September third to Saturday September thirteenth, 2025 in Toronto and on-line worldwide from September third to October third, 2025.
Below the theme Resilience in Movement, this milestone pageant will rejoice 20 years of transformative storytelling from throughout the Caribbean area and its world diaspora with 49 unimaginable movies. Programming will embrace premieres, retrospectives, talkbacks, tributes, and a world digital element, underscoring CTFF’s enduring dedication to elevating underrepresented voices in movie.
Based in 2006 by Frances-Anne Solomon, award-winning filmmaker and advocate for numerous cinema, CTFF has grown into an internationally acknowledged platform for Caribbean filmmakers. Over the previous 20 years, the pageant has screened greater than 1000 movies, supported a whole lot of creators, and performed a important position in shifting how Caribbean narratives are represented on display.
“This twentieth anniversary is each a celebration and a name to motion,” says Frances-Anne Solomon, Founder and Government Director of CaribbeanTales Media Group (CTMG). “We glance again on a technology of groundbreaking movies and sit up for a vibrant future the place Caribbean tales proceed to redefine the worldwide cinematic panorama.”
Competition Highlights Embrace
twentieth Anniversary | 49 Movies | Canadian premieres | 15+ International locations represented
Opening Night time Movie:
Bankie Banx: King of the Dune (Nara Garber, Anguilla/USA, 2024), that includes reggae icon Bankie Banx (aka Anguillan Bob Dylan), singer-songwriterJimmy Buffet, actor Kevin Bacon, Stephen “Cat” Coore (founding guitarist with Third World).
September sixth – Honouring Our Legends:
Celebrating the 88th Birthday of The Honourable Dr. Jean Augustine at The Harbourfront Centre Theatre, movie screenings and the presentation of the Jean Augustine Excellence Award to Steelpan Ambassador Wendy Jones
September seventh – Canadian Premiere:
Nomad in No Man’s Land (Hester Jonkhout, Netherlands/Curaçao, 2024), a movie about pioneering director Felix de Rooy, who’s an brazenly homosexual celebrated artist within the Caribbean
Digital CTFF from September third – October third:
An in depth on-line platform accessible to world audiences.
Closing night time Movie:
The Final Meal (Maryse Legagneur, Canada/DR, 2024)
Constructed over 20 years, CTMG is the one media group in Canada that gives an ecosystem of screen-based actions that serve Black Canadian, and culturally numerous audiences. CTMG supplies a pipeline of actions from creation to distribution that goals to uplift, enrich, promote and monetize Black and culturally numerous movie and tv content material for audiences.
CTMG is house to the CaribbeanTales Worldwide Movie Competition (CTFF), now in it’s twentieth yr. CTFF celebrates the abilities of established and rising filmmakers of Caribbean and African heritage who follow their artwork throughout the Caribbean Diaspora worldwide.
Over time, CTFF has been a launchpad for acclaimed works which have gone on to obtain worldwide recognition, whereas additionally serving as a cultural bridge between the Caribbean and broader worldwide movie communities.
The complete pageant lineup and ticketing particulars might be introduced on August third, 2025, through the pageant web site: www.caribbeantalesfestival.com.