Caribbean Times 5th Issue - Friday 24th February 2017

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Friday 24th February 2017
CaribbeanTales Flow into production
MIAMI, FL – Three of
the Caribbean’s leading film
producers will now develop
pilots for their original TV
series projects, via funding
from Flow and CaribbeanTales
Media Group.
With $40,000 funding
for each project, production
work will begin on Battledream
Chronicle, a sci-fi/
drama animated series created
by Alain Bidard, which
is based on his groundbreaking
multi-award winning
feature film; Heat, a sweltering
crime/drama series
filmed in Barbados from
iconic filmmaker Menelik
Shabazz (Burning an Illusion,
The Story of Lover’s
Rock and more); and Caribbean
Girl NYC, an ensemble
female-driven sitcom
from NY-based Guadeloupian
filmmaker/producer
Mariette Monpierre, whose
award-winning film Elza
won, among others, the prestigious
NYT award.
Support for these pilots
is part of CaribbeanTales
Incubator Program (CTI), a
year-round development and
production hub for Caribbean
and Caribbean Diaspora
Producers to assist in the creation
of strong, compelling
and sustainable regional content
for the global market.
“We recognise the significant
hurdles that Caribbean
Producers face in financing
and producing their content,
and getting it out to audiences,”
said John Reid, CEO of
Cable and Wireless, operator
of Flow and lead sponsor of
CTI. “We are honoured to
help support this programme
that is enabling the production
and monetisation of this
exciting emerging cultural
industry.”
Production on the pilots
will begin in April 2017.
They will premier later this
year at the twelfth annual
CaribbeanTales International
Film Festival (CTFF). Flow
is also the lead sponsor of
CTFF, a mix of exciting and
dynamic films that showcase
diverse, shared stories and
cultures, and celebrates the
talents of established and
emerging filmmakers of Caribbean
heritage. The festival
will be held in Toronto,
Canada between September
6 and September 20, 2017.
As an added bonus, an
eight-part documentary series
has been filmed and is
currently in post-production.
The series follows the ten
teams of filmmakers who
competed for this prestigious
award, and will be shown on
Flow1 later this year.
Frances-Anne Solomon,
CEO of CaribbeanTales,
states, “We are delighted
that, together with Flow, we
are able to provide the Caribbean’s
top filmmakers
with funding and a platform
to produce top quality, local,
content with the capacity to
reach audiences across the
region and the world.”
Visit the CTI website for
more information and to
apply for the 2017 CTI programme.
And follow Flow
and CaribbeanTales on Twitter,
Facebook and Instagram
to stay up to date.
CTI is now accepting
applications for its 2017
programme: http://caribbeantales.ca/cti.
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