T&T animator Camille Selvon Abrahams will produce a children's series as part of the CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution Production Support Program, which begins this year.
CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution is a distribution platform for Caribbean film and television content. The Production Support Program builds on CaribbeanTales' vision of creating strong, original, sustainable Caribbean film and television content for the international market.
The Program, a project of the CaribbeanTales Incubator, pairs the winners of this years Big Pitch with experienced executive producers to help ?bring the projects to production as quickly as possible.
Launched in 2010 and now in its sixth year, the CaribbeanTales Incubator is a training and production platform that gives selected Caribbean diaspora filmmakers an opportunity to hone their creative and business skills with the aim of increasing the pool of strong, world-class, indigenous content from the Caribbean.
In the Big Pitch Incubator participants pitch their developed projects to industry professionals, who vote on the projects that have the most creative and commercial potential at the TIFF Bell Lightbox during the Toronto International Film Festival.
The annual Incubator Market program is a competitive process and includes a month of online market preparation followed by a week of workshops and networking opportunities with world-class film and television specialists in Toronto, Canada.
The Production Support Program is a six-month process that aims to bridge the gap between pitching and production. Participants will be invited to present their results in Toronto in September.
This year's Big Pitch winner was Melissa Gomez, whose project Defining Moments, a 13-part online series of documentary shorts, brings to life extraordinary moments of everyday Caribbean people. First runner-up Camille Selvon Abrahams, of T&T, will be producing Magnificent Maggie, a children's animated series about a girl whose magical glasses help her delve into the world of science.
Coming on board as CaribbeanTales executive producer for Defining Moments is Christopher Laird, noted producer and co-founder of the region's first all-Caribbean television station, Gayelle the Channel. CBC content developer and experienced producer Nick Davis will be joining the Magnificent Maggie project as CaribbeanTales executive producer.
Jelani Nias of Canada, whose pitch came third, will be developing his critically acclaimed novel Where Eagles Crawl and Men Fly into a sci-fi drama series, under CaribbeanTales executive producer Floyd Kane, whose numerous credits include Bowling For Columbine, Shake Hands with the Devil, and North/South.
As this inaugural Incubator Production Support program kicks off, the new call is now open for applicants to the 2015 Incubator Program, to take place from September 2- 9, 2015. The deadline for applications to CT2015 is April 30, 2015.
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