Quote:
"Ulric [Cross] had an incredible life, but he was an unknown and unsung hero. I feel that by showing [in Hero] the life of Ulric, the breadth, it really shows you how narrow we have been reduced, it really shows the possibilities of the kinds of stories that can be told about our people, and in that context, it breaks my heart that up until now the most common stories have been about drug dealers or gangs or prostitutes or slaves. Those are obviously some of the representations of our people, but we have so much more to do. We have comedies, we have tragedies, we have romances, there are so many different genres and so many different stories coming out of our experiences, not just as Caribbean people but people of the Caribbean diaspora, people from all over the world, and we are a multi-faceted, multi-cultural country that has so much rich heritage to share."
-- Frances-Anne Solomon

Source:
Lindo, Paula. "Filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon: 'Movies must tell our Caribbean stories'." Interview with Frances-Anne Solomon. Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, November 8, 2020.