Caribbeantales Worldwide Movie Competition Celebrates 20 Years Of Huge Vibes, Huge Tales And Sensible Filmmaking

NEWS AMERICAS, Toronto, ON, Fri. Aug. 1, 2025: The CaribbeanTales Worldwide Movie Competition (CTFF), North America’s premier occasion showcasing Caribbean and diaspora cinema, proudly publicizes its twentieth anniversary version, happening Wednesday September third to Saturday September thirteenth, 2025, in Toronto and on-line worldwide from September third to October third, 2025.

Underneath the theme “Resilience in Movement,” this milestone pageant will rejoice twenty years of transformative storytelling from throughout the Caribbean area and its international diaspora with 49 unbelievable movies. Programming will embrace premieres, retrospectives, talkbacks, tributes, and a world digital part, underscoring CTFF’s enduring dedication to elevating underrepresented voices in movie.

Based in 2006 by Frances-Anne Solomon, an award-winning filmmaker and advocate for various cinema, CTFF has grown into an internationally acknowledged platform for Caribbean filmmakers. Over the previous twenty years, the pageant has screened greater than 1000 movies, supported a whole lot of creators, and performed a essential 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 look forward to a vibrant future the place Caribbean tales proceed to redefine the worldwide cinematic panorama.”

Competition Highlights Embody:

●     twentieth Anniversary | 49 Movies | Canadian premieres | 15+ International locations represented

●     Opening Evening Movie: Bankie Banx: King of the Dune (Nara Garber, Anguilla/USA, 2024), that includes reggae icon Bankie Banx (aka Anguillan Bob Dylan), singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffet, actor Kevin Bacon, Stephen “Cat” Coore (founding guitarist with Third World)

●     Closing evening Movie: The Final Meal (Maryse Legagneur, Canada/DR, 2024)

●     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 of Nomad in No Man’s Land (Hester Jonkhout, Netherlands/Curaçao, 2024), a movie about pioneering director Felix de Rooy, who’s an overtly homosexual celebrated artist within the Caribbean

●     Digital CTFF from September third – October third, an in depth on-line platform accessible to international audiences.
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 total pageant lineup and ticketing particulars can be introduced on August 3, 2025, by way of the pageant web site: www.caribbeantalesfestival.com.

Competition Director Diana Webley is accessible for Radio, Tv and Digital Media outlet interviews.

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About CaribbeanTales Worldwide Movie Competition:

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 various audiences. CTMG supplies a pipeline of actions from creation to distribution that goals to uplift, enrich, promote and monetize Black and culturally various movie and tv content material for audiences.

CTMG is dwelling to the CaribbeanTales Worldwide Movie Competition (CTFF), now in its 20^th 12 months. CTFF celebrates the abilities of established and rising filmmakers of Caribbean and African heritage who follow their artwork throughout the Caribbean Diaspora worldwide.

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