Leda Serene Films is a film, television, and theatre production company based in Toronto, Canada, owned by filmmaker and producer

Frances-Anne Solomon Frances-Anne Solomon (born 28 June 1966) is a British-Caribbean-Canadian filmmaker, writer, producer, and distributor. She has lived in Britain, Trinidad & Tobago, and Toronto, Canada. Biography Born in England of Trinidadian parents, who had g ...

. The company has produced award-winning cross-platform projects from feature films, and creative documentaries, to original theatre plays. Recent projects include ''

A Winter Tale ''A Winter Tale'' is a 2007 Canadian drama film written, directed and produced by Frances-Anne Solomon, featuring Canadian actor Peter Williams and Caribbean stars Leonie Forbes and Dennis " Sprangalang" Hall. It premiered at the ReelWorld Film ...

'', ''

Lord Have Mercy! ''Lord Have Mercy!'' is a Canadian television sitcom, produced by Leda Serene Films, first shown on Vision TV in 2003. It received further showings in Canada on Toronto One, APTN and Showcase later the same year. The series, one of the first ...

'', a sitcom, for

Vision TV VisionTV is a Television in Canada, Canadian English language Category A services, Category A specialty channel that broadcasts multi-faith, multicultural, and general entertainment programming aimed at the 45 and over demographic. VisionTV is ...

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, APTN and Showcase and ''Literature Alive'', a multi-faceted multimedia project showcasing Caribbean Canadian literature through documentaries, audio books, radio programs and an educational website.

Filmography

* ''A Winter Tale'', 2007, Feature Film. * ''LiteratureAlive'', Seasons 1 & 2, 2005–6, 20-part TV Series * ''

'', 2001–3, Sitcom Series. * ''Speak Like a Child'', 1998, Feature Film * ''What My Mother Told Me'', 1996, Feature Film * ''Siren Spirits'', 1995, Short Film Series. * ''Reunion: West Indian Women at War'', 1993, Documentary. * ''I Is a Long Memoried Woman'', 1990, Documentary Feature

Awards

''A Winter Tale'' launched the ReelWorld Film Festival 2007, and won the Tonya Lee Williams Award for Outstanding Canadian Feature, as well as Special Mention in the Outstanding Screenplay category. ''What My Mother Told Me''premiered at the

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...

in 1996, and has won awards at The Festival of Black International Cinema (Berlin, St Louis, Paris), "Best Film Depicting The Black Experience", and at Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival 2006, HBO Best Feature Award. The ''Literature Alive'' documentary series won a Special Recognition Award for "Memory Places" at The Festival of Black International Cinema, and the Audience Award for "Blood Dub and The Matriarch" at the San Diego Women's Film Festival. ''Lord Have Mercy!'' was nominated for 2 Gemini Awards - for Best Comedy Series and Best Individual Performance (for

Leonie Forbes Leonie Evadne Forbes Order of Distinction, OD (14 June 1937 – 25 October 2022) was a Jamaican actress, broadcaster and producer who was active in theatre, radio and television. Forbes born and grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. She attended Kingst ...

). ''Bideshi'' won Best Short Feature at the Bombay International Film Festival, 1996. ''I Is A Long Memoried Woman'' won the Gold Award for Television Performing Arts, at the New York International Film & Television Festival 1991. The BBC Radio version won Best Feature Documentary, at the Sony Radio Awards 1991, and was nominated for a Prix Futura for most Innovative Radio Feature.

External links

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