A Winter Tale is on the move - and its first stop is the prestigious Montreal World Film Festival. Frances Anne Solomon's award-winning feature film is set to screen to discerning audiences in La Belle Province. The festival runs from August 23 - September 3, 2007. A Winter Tale's screening dates and times are to be announced.

Through its screening, Solomon is looking forward to connecting with multicultural communities, particularly young audiences for whom issues of youth violence are as pressing - if not more so - as in Toronto.

The film's production crew will also be meeting with local community partners in anticipation of the Montreal leg of TALK IT OUT - a nationwide anti-violence tour of the film, scheduled to take place in Quebec early next year.

Please visit www.awintertale.ca, and join A Winter Tale's Facebook Group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2625881428) for times and dates of the Montreal premiere, upcoming festival screenings of the film, and details on the TALK IT OUT Tour.

A Winter Tale tells the emotional story of a Black Men's support group that begins to meet at a local Caribbean Takeaway Restaurant, after a 10-year-old child is killed by a stray bullet. It features a powerful ensemble cast led by Canadian stars Peter Williams and Michael Miller, and Caribbean icons Leonie Forbes and Dennis "Sprangalang" Hall.

The timely feature, which opened the Seventh Annual ReelWorld Film Festival in April, and took home the Tonya Lee Williams Award for Outstanding Canadian Feature Film, has been hailed by media and audiences alike, as "excellent" and "exactly what the city needs".

TALK IT OUT, a CaribbeanTales project, supported by Telefilm Canada, is targeted at youth between the ages of 12-25. The tour will use A Winter Tale to stimulate discussion and awareness of youth violence and gun culture in Canada.

This innovative program was launched at the Workman Theatre, in Toronto on July 15th. In partnership with several local community centres, colleges and grass-roots organizations serving youth, TALK IT OUT will soon be announcing the first series of screenings and discussions in the Tour.

As one of Canada's oldest and most prestigious international festivals, The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF) works to encourage cultural diversity and understanding between nations, to foster the cinema of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema, to promote filmmakers and innovative works, and to promote meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.

A Winter Tale will be in screened in WFF's central platform; Focus on World Cinema.

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Available for interviews, Frances-Anne Solomon

For more information, visit www.ledaserene.ca,
www.awintertale.ca,
www.caribbeantales.ca,
www.literaturealiveonline.ca