The CaribbeanTales Incubator (CTI) is a year-round development and production hub for Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora producers which aims to create strong, compelling, and sustainable content for the global market. The ultimate goal of the CTI is to increase the pool of world-class, indigenous film and television content, so as to build the region’s audio visual capacity. This year the CTI is sponsored by Caribbean TV and communications provider Flow, as part of its commitment to the development of the Caribbean filmmaking industry.
The CTI’s flagship programme is the Market Incubator Program (MIP), a marketing and packaging forum for long-running series projects, which includes five weeks of online training, and one week of intensive workshops in Toronto. The MIP offers selected Caribbean and Diaspora producers an opportunity to hone their creative and business skills in the context of an international marketplace environment. The programme culminates in the Big Pitch that takes place at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Bell Lightbox, bringing together international industry delegates to vote on the best projects. Winners of the Big Pitch graduate to the nine-month CTI Production Support Program (PSP), which takes projects from pitch to production and for the first time, selected PSP projects will receive Pilot funding from Flow.
The CTI-MIP is open to filmmakers, producers, writers, animators and media practitioners from the Caribbean and its Diaspora (including the US, UK, Canada, Africa, India, South and Central America). The programme is specifically targeted towards the creation of original, long-running series content, with a focus on market sustainability. Up to 15 projects will be selected on a competitive basis based on the quality of the proposal and participants’ previous work, and/or contributions to the regional film industry.
To this end, producers interested in applying must meet the following criteria:
• The concept must have potential to be developed into a long-running series;
• The project can be either fiction, documentary or animation, and must fit into the format of either episodic film, television, or web series;
• The project must be owned or co-owned by a Caribbean national, or person of Caribbean heritage;
• The team must include at least one producer with a track record and significant production experience in film and television;
• The project must have a clear audience in the Caribbean and/or its Caribbean (including the USA, UK, Canada, Africa, India, South and Central America).
Interested applicants need to apply online. The deadline for entries is 30 April 2016.
