By Anne Brodie History will be made tomorrow and we are its witnesses. Few of us have seen the coronation of a British monarch. The last, Queen Elizabeth II, was 70 years ago. She served longer than any Monarch since Britain's organisation as a kingdom in early medieval times and was widely …
Women Do It All, and So Does This 18th Century Polymath, a Man.
By Anne Brodie Twice Colonized opens this year's 30th annual Hot Docs Film Festival on April 27. Filmmaker Lin Alluna focused her lens for seven years on Inuit lawyer and sealskin clothes designer, Aaju Peter. She was indeed 'twice colonized". The first time Peter was taken alone as a child of …
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugh-ly. Entertainment in Short
By Anne Brodie Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based actor, and filmmaker Michael Zelniker traversed Canada's massive boreal forest to shine a light on an urgent environmental problem. Our boreal forest, the biggest in the world and the "lungs of the planet", below the Arctic, is home to countless …
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton: How a Singular Character Escapes the Shackles of Enslavement.
Sara Collin's award-winning novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton, the LGBTQ+ drama/mystery story of an enslaved woman taken from Bermuda to London in 1825 was envisioned as a Black Gothic romance in the Wuthering Heights style. The themes of slavery, patriarchy, feminism, and culture are front …
The Confessions of Frannie Langton, a Black Gothic Romance with a Twist. Meet Frannie and Her Creator.
Sara Collins' bestseller The Confessions of Frannie Langton, now a BritBox four-part series stars Karla-Simone Spence, follows the strange life of an enslaved West Indies woman Frannie, taken by her owner in 1825 to serve in the home of a wealthy family in London. The lady of the house, Madame …