PRODUCTIONS
CTMG Productions has 20+ years industry
experience and has produced several film and television series.
HERO:
INSPIRED BY THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AND TIMES OF MR.ULRIC CROSS
FEATURE FILM
directed by Frances-Anne Solomon
HERO is the story of Ulric Cross, who in 1941, left his small island home in Trinidad to seek his fortune, and became the RAF’s most decorated West Indian airman of WWII. His life took a dramatically different course when he followed the call of history and joined the independence movements sweeping Africa in the ‘50s and ‘60s.
BATTLEDREAM CHRONICLES
TV ANIMATION PILOT - 30 MIN
created and directed by Alain Bidard
Will a young black female slave succeed in defeating her master and bringing down his machiavellian empire in this futuristic world where the plantations are video games?
Watch Battledream Chronicles now on CaribbeanTales-TV
CARIBBEAN GIRL NYC
TV PILOT - 30 MIN
directed by Mariette Monpierre
An original comedy series following the life of Isabelle, a 22 year old aspiring actress, fresh off the plane from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. She dreams of being rich and famous and finding love in NYC. There's only one problem: she has no working papers and no money!
Watch Caribbean Girl NYC now on CaribbeanTales-TV
KINGSTON PARADISE
FEATURE FILM
directed by Mary Wells
Finding himself stuck in the violent ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, a small-time hustler devises a daring but no-so-clever plan to steal a fancy sports car, right under the owner’s nose, after which things rapidly go downhill until he gets to the bottom and begins to realize that he has to change in order to fulfill his dreams.
Watch Kingston Paradise on CaribbeanTales-TV
A WINTER TALE
FEATURE FILM
directed by Frances-Anne Solomon
In Frances-Anne Solomon's elegiac “A Winter Tale”, six Black men, all patrons at Miss G's Caribbean TakeAway Restaurant, form an ill-fated support group in an attempt to salvage their broken spirits and besieged community, following the local shooting death of a young child.
Watch A Winter Tale on CaribbeanTales-TV
I IS A LONG MEMORIED WOMAN
FEATURE FILM
directed by Frances-Anne Solomon
An extraordinary video chronicling the history of slavery through the eyes of Caribbean women, it is a striking combination of monologue, dance, and song — griotstyle — that conveys a young African woman’s quest for survival in the New World.
Watch I Is a Long Memoried Woman on CaribbeanTales-TV
WHAT MY MOTHER TOLD ME
SHORT FILM
directed by Frances-Anne Solomon
Exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving, What My Mother Told Me is a dramatic journey towards self discovery. The story focuses on Jesse, a young woman from England, who goes to Trinidad to bury her father. Reluctantly she agrees to meet her mother, whom she thought had abandoned her when she was a child. Her mother tells her stories, revealing a troubled and violent marriage, and Jesse is forced to face the truth about her past.
Watch What My Mother Told Me on CaribbeanTales-TV
PEGGY SU!
FEATURE FILM
directed by Frances-Anne Solomon
This romantic comedy set in Liverpool in 1962, is about the Chinese community there and 19-year-old Peggy who lives above a family laundry business with her brother and his wife. It centers on Peggy played by Pamela Oei, her attempts to find a husband and also her coping with the changing times in the early 1960s.
Watch Peggy Su! on CaribbeanTales-TV
HEARTBEAT
DOCUMENTARY SERIES
written by Frances-Anne Solomon
Heart Beat is a 13xhalf hour documentary series that profiles Canadian-Caribbean musicians and explores the hearts, minds, and worlds of some of Canada’s most dynamic musical creators.
Watch Heartbeat on CaribbeanTales-TV
LITERATURE ALIVE
TV SERIES
written by Frances-Anne Solomon
Literature Alive is a multi-faceted educational project, produced by Toronto-based multimedia company CaribbeanTales and sister company Leda Serene Films, that explores the work of Caribbean-Canadian authors. It comprises a documentary series (commissioned for Bravo! Canada, and first broadcast in October 2005); a series of audio books; a website and a radio series for the CBC.Literature Alive! Second Life is a program in the multi-user virtual environment Second Life used to disseminate instruction in the humanities in a 3D Environment.
Watch Literature Alive on CaribbeanTales-TV
LORD HAVE MERCY!
TV SERIES
directed by Frances-Anne Solomon
Lord Have Mercy! features up-and-coming Canadian actor Arnold Pinnock as Youth Pastor Dwight Gooding. An ambitious but socially inept young minister who plans to make big changes at Mt. Zion, a church in the heart of Toronto’s Caribbean community. But he must compete with the charismatic and easy-going Pastor Cuthbert Stevens (played by popular Trinidadian comic Dennis “Sprangalang” Hall) for the loyalty and attention of the eccentric church crew.
Watch Lord have Mercy! on CaribbeanTales-TV
Siren Spirits
TV SERIES
directed by Frances-Anne Solomon
“Siren Spirits” is a wonderful feature comprising four short dramas directed by women of color, produced by Leda Serene for the British Film Institute and BBC Television.
