Black Market Releasing, will begin serving the dynamic, untapped theatrical market for diverse voices, mobilize audiences and connect BIPOC stories to the big screen.
Focused on the Canadian theatrical market, Black Market Releasing is headed by award-winning filmmaker and Academy member, Frances-Anne Solomon and will acquire stories told by the BIPOC community with a commitment to find theatrical recognition. Black Market’s parent organization, The CaribbeanTales Media Group has been bringing BIPOC content to screens for over twenty years.
Among the first on the slate of Black Market Releasing is “Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes,” directed by Mark James, which tells the story of the Chins, the Chinese-Jamaican family behind the legendary recording studio. Studio 17 became the heart of the music revolution after Jamaican independence from Great Britain in 1962. The feature documentary features previously unreleased music and original interviews with the likes of Dennis Brown, Jimmy Cliff, UB40, Maxi Priest, Lee “Scratch” Perry and more.
Black Market is now accepting content submissions. Curtains will go up on the company’s first theatrical release in February 2022 as part of Black History Month.
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ABOUT FRANCES-ANNE SOLOMON:
A trailblazer in the film and television industry, Frances-Anne Solomon is an award-winning film and television director, curator, and businesswoman. Born in England of 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.
Productions included Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) by John Maybury and Speak Like a Child (1998) by John Akomfrah, both of which she executive produced for the BBC. She also produced and directed films and television programs through her production company Leda Serene Films. Frances-Anne moved back to Toronto in 2000 where she continues to create, write, direct and produce her own projects.
Directing credits include the feature films A Winter Tale (City TV), Peggy Su! (BBC Films), What My Mother Told Me ( Channel 4 Films), the short film Bideshi( British Film Institute); and documentaries Literature Alive (Bravo) and I Is a Long Memoried Woman(Arts Council of England).
Her latest feature film HERO Inspired by the Extraordinary Life & Times of Mr. Ulric Cross has received wide critical acclaim, opening a slew of international festivals and is now available on ShowTime in the US.
She produced the multi-award winning feature Kingston Paradise directed by Mary Wells, and was the Co-creator, Producer and Director of Lord Have Mercy! – Canada’s first Caribbean sitcom that aired on Vision TV, Toronto 1, Showcase and APTN and starred comedian/actor Russell Peters. The show received two Gemini nominations.
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