Illuminating Entertaining Educational.
Since 1990
Syncopated Productios Inc.
Born in St. Kitts, Browne moved with her family to Toronto, Canada in 1970.
She started her production company, Syncopated Productions Inc. in 1990.
Her very first two films Brothers in Music and No Choices debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1991 and launched Browne’s film career.
From that time onward Browne has consistently produced work that has examined the cross section of race, class and gender.
Her films have won numerous awards and have been screened and broadcasted internationally.
In 1999 Browne completed the semi-autobiographical film Another Planet her first dramatic feature film and the first feature film to be directed by a Black woman in Canada.In 2008, she completed Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language a ground-breaking five-part documentary series featuring Noam Chomsky.
In 2013 her first novel, Two Women was published. Philomena (Unloved) her second novel was published in 2018.
She recently completed an animated documentary on Austin Clarke and her third novel, 2084: The Conversion.
In addition to her film and literary work, Browne has also worked as a film programmer, curator, media arts instructor, and librettist.
She is currently developing an experimental animated film and her first opera.
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Austin Clarke: Survivor of the Crossing
In this animated documentary famed black Canadian writer Austin Clarke talks about his upbringing in Barbados, his early literary influences, colonialism, race, class, discrimination and his friendship with Malcolm X.
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Farewell Regent
What happens when the largest redevelopment in North America dismantles the place where social housing began? Will the community and its residents ever be the same?
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Mount Misery
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A tragedy causes an elderly woman to journey deep into her subconscious and ponder the afterlife. -
Speaking in Tongues
Currently there are more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world. This five-part series traces the history and evolution of language and attendant theories and controversies while evaluating the scope of linguistic diversity, the dissemination of language, the expansion of language into written form, and the life cycle of language.
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A way Out
A Way Out is a documentary about breaking the cycle of poverty in Canadian’s oldest and largest “ghetto,” Regent Park. In addition to talking about what it is like to grow up poor in North America, it explores the reasons behind one person finding a way out of poverty and others remaining.
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Another Planet
Cassandra Jones is a young woman from Toronto with a very active imagination and unique view of the world. Feeling trapped by life in her low-income community, and unable to relate to her brother Patrick, a petty criminal, or her overly pious mother, Mary, Cassandra decides to leave Toronto. She applies and is accepted into an exchange program between Quebec and West Africa.
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No choice
No Choice is a short documentary that deals with the abortion issue and how it relates to women living in poverty. Five women, ranging in age from twenty to forty speak about the lack of choice available to poor people and how, because of their poverty, their reproductive capabilities are often controlled by extraneous factors. Part of the National Film Board of Canada's "Five Feminist Minutes.
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Brothers in music
John T. Davis (pianist/organist/vocalist) and Jim Heineman (saxophonist) are two Canadian jazzmen who have had to wage the war between the compulsion and the passion that they feel towards their music and the struggle that is involved with trying to make a living in the field of jazz music in Canada. John T. Davis is a Black musician from a poor rural environment. Jim Heineman is a white musician from a white middle-class urban environment.
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