Frances-Anne Solomon

Frances-Anne Solomon is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, producer, curator, educator, and cultural entrepreneur whose work spans film, television, radio, theatre, and new media. Born in England to Trinidadian parents, she was raised and educated in the Caribbean and Canada before establishing an early career in the United Kingdom, where she worked as a TV Drama Producer and Executive Producer with the BBC.

In 2000, Frances-Anne relocated to Toronto, where she continued to write, direct, and produce critically acclaimed work while expanding her role as an industry builder and advocate for Caribbean and Black creators. Her directing credits include the feature films Peggy Su! (BBC Films), What My Mother Told Me (Channel 4), and Bideshi (BFI), as well as documentaries such as I Is A Long Memoried Woman, Reunion, and Literature Alive. She was the co-creator, producer, and director of Lord Have Mercy!, Canada’s first Caribbean sitcom, which aired in 2003 across Vision TV, Toronto/One, Showcase, and APTN, and received two Gemini Award nominations.

Her feature film A Winter Tale (2007) received widespread international recognition, including a Special Mention in the Paul Robeson Diaspora Category at FESPACO 2009. In 2019, she wrote, directed, and produced HERO: Inspired by the Extraordinary Life & Times of Mr. Ulric Cross, which garnered multiple international awards, including the inaugural Ja’Net DuBois Narrative Feature Award at the Pan African Film and Arts Festival, toured internationally, and premiered globally on Netflix in 2022.

Frances-Anne is the Founder and CEO of the CaribbeanTales Group of Companies, headquartered in Toronto and Barbados. The group includes CaribbeanTales Media Group (CTMG), which produces, exhibits, and distributes Caribbean and Black content globally; CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution, the English-speaking Caribbean’s first full-service film sales and distribution company; CaribbeanTales-TV, a digital VOD platform dedicated to Caribbean and BIPOC cinema; and the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival (CTIFF). She also founded the CaribbeanTales Youth Film Festival and CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution in collaboration with regional cultural and industry leaders.

Deeply committed to capacity building and decolonizing global storytelling systems, she developed the CaribbeanTales Incubator Program and the broader Creators of Colour initiatives, offering development labs, international training cohorts, and production hubs for emerging and mid-career creators from the Global South and its diaspora. In 2015, she launched CineFAM, a global platform dedicated to supporting bold, original film stories by women and non-binary creators of colour. Her most recent training initiative, Cross-Continental Forum: De-colonizing Co-production, convened over 30 established producers for co-production and industry training in Barbados.

Frances-Anne has taught film at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine (Trinidad) and Cave Hill (Barbados). She began her television career at Banyan Productions in Trinidad, studied theatre at the University of Toronto, trained as a director at Bristol University’s RFT Programme, and completed the BBC Drama Directors Programme.

In 2019, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and currently serves on the Directors Branch Executive Committee. Through visionary leadership, artistic excellence, and sustained advocacy, Frances-Anne Solomon continues to shape a more equitable, representative, and globally connected film industry.

One of her current projects season 2 of Garvey’s Ghost follows the breakout success of its debut season, the award-winning web and TV series Garvey’s Ghost which is set to return for a highly anticipated second season in 2026.

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