Film about Caribbean ‘HERO’ Opens in Toronto This Month

TORONTO, Canada – Caribbean Canadian filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon will release her feature film “HERO” here this month.

The movie, which is inspired by the life of Ulric Cross, is scheduled for limited theatrical release. The premier is on Feb. 28at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., Toronto. 

The cast of the film, shot in Trinidad and Tobago, Ghana and the United Kingdom, includes T&T’s Nickolai Salcedo. 

Cross, who in 1941 left his Caribbean island to seek fortune, became the Royal Air Force’s most decorated West Indian. Hethen joined the African independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s.