Through the spon­sor­ship of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Film Com­pa­ny (TTFC), along with Cari­com, US­AIDS and The Back Lot, a Suri­namese or­gan­i­sa­tion that sup­ports film, the T&T an­i­ma­tion fes­ti­val An­i­mae Caribe had a sig­nif­i­cant pres­ence in Car­ifes­ta XI, said An­i­mae Caribe founder Camille Selvon-Abra­hams.

An­i­mae Caribe con­duct­ed work­shops for over 150 young peo­ple, pre­sen­ta­tions, and screen­ings at the re­gion­al fes­ti­val of the arts, which took place in Suri­name from Au­gust 16-25.

Apart from Selvon-Abra­hams, the An­i­mae Caribe team fea­tured Al­i­son Latch­man, CEO/writer at Al­cy­one An­i­ma­tion and cre­ator of the "Cab­bie Chron­i­cles," a pop­u­lar car­toon se­ries from Ja­maica. Latch­man has cred­it­ed An­i­mae Caribe as the im­pe­tus for the cre­ation of the se­ries.

Af­ter en­ter­ing the 2010 An­i­mae Caribe An­i­ma­tion fes­ti­val Latch­man and her team won the Best Caribbean An­i­ma­tion Award.

The TTFC is a found­ing spon­sor of the An­i­mae Caribe fes­ti­val, which has tak­en place an­nu­al­ly for the past 11 years in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The fes­ti­val screens lo­cal and re­gion­al an­i­ma­tion and an­i­ma­tors, hosts work­shops for an­i­ma­tors, and brings in­ter­na­tion­al an­i­ma­tion ex­perts to fa­cil­i­tate sem­i­nars and dis­cus­sions.

"From the on­set TTFC has been in­stru­men­tal in our growth not on­ly as a T&T fes­ti­val but al­so as a Caribbean-wide fes­ti­val and one of the ma­jor suc­cess fac­tors is con­sis­ten­cy in that sup­port," Selvon-Abra­hams said.

"Caribbean an­i­ma­tion has grown tremen­dous­ly over the past 12 years; An­i­mae Caribe has been a plat­form for this growth and gives an­i­ma­tors some­thing to look for­ward to every year."