Heart Beat (2007)

"We all have a heart, which is a drum, beating the rhythm of life."(Master Drummer Muhtadi) Thirteen beautifully crafted point-of-view documentaries profiling artists like Master Drummer Muhtadi, World Beat Band Kobo Town, Juno award-winning trumpeter Nick "Brownman" Ali, MOJAH, steel pannist and cultural activist Ian Jones, Cuban singer-songwriter Alex Cuba, and Canada's still unbeaten Calypso Queen Macomere Fifi, to name but a few. The series is created and produced by award-winning filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon, and directed with panache and passion by Lana Lovell, Safiya Randera, Mars Horodyski, ALberto Suarez, Justin Lovell, Elspeth Duncan, Paul Nguyen and Andrea Stewart.