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Francess-Anne Solomon

Francess-Anne Solomon was in England  to 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. She moved to Toronto in 2000, where she continued to create, write, direct, and produce her own projects. Her last film, A Winter Tale, received many prestigious international awards, including most recently at FESPACO 2009 (Africa’s Oscars held biannually in Burkina Faso, West Africa) where it also won Special Mention in The Paul Robeson Diaspora Category. Other directing credits include the feature film Peggy Su! (BBC Films, 1997); the Drama and Bideshi (British Film Institute 1994); and documentaries Literature Alive (Bravo!/OMNI,