A Winter Tale

Susan Fueg is the General Manager of Leda Serene Films and Caribbean Tales and is responsible for the financial, personnel and contract management of Leda Serene, its associated companies, and all of its individual projects. She has worked as Line Producer on the 26-part documentary series, Literature Alive and as Producer on the award-winning feature film, A Winter Tale. Before joining the company in May 2003, Susan worked as an Administrator, Manager, Accountant and Fund-raiser for a range of non-profit organizations.

Kim Derko csc studied art at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, and apprenticed at the National Film Board in Montreal. She has photographed art projects that were displayed at the Guggenheim Museum and the Venice Biennale, and has credits as a director of photography, which include the television productions Nature of the Beast, Show Me Yours and Dark Oracle, and the independent features A Winter Tale, Kardia, The Law of Enclosures, and I, Claudia. Her work on the performance film Youkali Hotel won a 2004 Gemini Award. Derko has also directed three films and several music videos.

The founding Artistic Director of the Toronto-based SwizzleStick Theatre, he designs and directs scenarios for Stilt-Dancing Moko Jumbies and has been working on Caribana since 1985 with Shadowland, VideoCabaret and the Toronto Island Mas Band. Recipient of a Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship in Textile Design, he study-toured in India. Beginning with the Trinidad Theatre Workshop of Derek Walcott, he was a foundation member of the Banyan Television Workshop and the Callaloo Company of Peter Minshall. This is his second project with Leda Serene.  The first was as Art Director on “What My Mother Told Me.”

John is a composer for film and Television whose credits include over 20 MOW’s, 6 series, 50 documentary 1-hours and mini-series, and 6 seasons of the award-winning drama series Road To Avonlea. He is a 5-time Gemini Award winner and a 12-time Gemini nominee. John is also a songwriter and music arranger, having worked with artists like Loreena McKennitt, Alannah Myles, Stephanie Hardy, Jane Siberry, Available Space, and particularly Cherie Camp, with whom he co-wrote songs and recorded the album ‘Cherie Camp’, produced by Gene Martynec, for WEA.

Mauri has been doing music since the age of seven, singing and song writing, as well as composing. He has produced many songs for radio in Trinidad and Tobago, working with artists such as Bunji Garlin and 3 Canal. He has composed for Literature Alive, a 13-part documentry series which aired on Bravo! in late 2005 for Leda Serene Films. Mauri has composed for theatre productions such as A Winter Tale (Leda Serene/Caribbean Tales) and is also working on the music for a feature film version of A Winter Tale. He is also an audio engineer, holding a diploma in recording engineering from Recording Arts Canada and has worked professionally as an audio engineer since 2000. 

Director 

Frances-Anne Solomon

Writers

Frances-Anne Solomon

Michele Lonsdale Smith

Producers

Frances-Anne Solomon

Susan Fueg

Michele Lonsdale Smith 

Director of Photography

Kim Derko

Editor

Michele Francis

Production Designer

Christopher Pinheiro

Sound Design

Brian Eimer

Original Music

John Welsman

Mauri Hall

Doug Dales, P.S. Production    Services

Barrington Hibbert,  Masaryk Cowan Center