Frances-Anne Solomon
CCF Delegate
Filmmaker/ CEO & Festival Director, Caribbean Film Festival
Frances-Anne Solomon is an award-winning filmmaker, CEO of CaribbeanTales Media Group, and advocate for Black content. Raised in the Caribbean and Canada, she built a career at the BBC, producing works like Love Is the Devil. She founded CineFAM to support Women of Colour filmmakers and created Lord Have Mercy!, Canada’s first Caribbean sitcom. Her recent film HERO has garnered international acclaim. Frances-Anne is also a member of AMPAS and the Director’s Guild of Canada.
CCF Delegate
Filmmaker/ CEO & Festival Director, Caribbean Film Festival
Asha Lovelace is a filmmaker and cultural leader dedicated to the development of Caribbean cinema. She trained at the renowned Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba and holds a BA in Communications and Cinema Studies from Rutgers University. Her debut short film, George and the Bicycle Pump, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and her first feature, Joebell and America, won Best International Narrative Feature at the Women’s International Film Festival in Miami. She is currently developing her second feature, Jestina, and continues to write and adapt screenplays rooted in Caribbean life and literature.
Asha is the founder and festival director of Africa Film Trinidad and Tobago (AFTT), a platform that has championed African and diaspora cinema for over a decade as a means of inspiring and developing Caribbean film through deep engagement with the African continent. She also serves as Regional Secretary for the Caribbean Diaspora with the Federation of Pan
African Filmmakers (FEPACI). In 2025, she launched the Caribbean Film Festival as CEO and festival director—a destination event dedicated to the exhibition, development, and future of Caribbean film.