Caribbean Tales Incubator, a development and production hub for Caribbean and Diaspora Content producers, have announced their 7th cohort of Caribbean Digital Projects that will enter their programme this year.
After receiving a record breaking number of applications, projects were assessed by a team of industry professionals. The 2016 selected projects are as follows:
From Trinidad and Tobago, and sponsored by the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company: Bitter Fruit, a gripping telenovela full of intrigue and betrayal, from actress, director and producer Juliette McCawley; Big Man Dan, an off-beat animation series by Kafi Kareem Farrell, screenwriter and multi-platform media producer; and Sean Hodgkinson’s new risque melodrama , The Weekend. Hodgkinson’s award winning feature film Trafficked will have its Canadian Premiere at the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival immediately following the Incubator.
From Jamaica: Yolande Clarke’s Lil’ Island Kidz, a fun educational animation for children; and Rachel Osbourne’s hard-hitting drama series West Bay, exploring corporate corruption and environmentalism on Jamaica’s North Coast.
From Barbados, Menelik Shabazz’s dark soap opera HEAT, delves into murder, class, and deceit behind closed doors; while Battledream Chronicles, by Martinique’s Alain Bidard is an animated science fiction fantasy series adapted from his feature film of the same name. Battledream– the first – feature-length animation from the Francophone Caribbean — will be have its North American Premiere at CTFF2016.
The three remaining projects are from the Caribbean Diaspora. Brooklynites, by Esosa Edosomwan, features the aspirations and dreams of a pan-Caribbean group of twenty-something friends; Mo’ Love by Canada’s Glace Lawrence is a strong female-driven sitcom set in Toronto’s East End; and, Money Money Money is a madcap comedy series, from Holland-based producer Monique Dikmoet.
Flow, Telecoms Provider is a lead sponsor of the CTI, and, for the first time, three winning projects will receive pilot funding from Flow.
Congratulations to the CEO of CaribbeanTales, Frances-Anne Solomon for her pioneering and consistent work on the mission to increase the volume of compelling world class content from the Caribbean region.
