Avatar actress CCH Pounder and Academy Award-nominated producer Paul Garnes will attend the inaugural Cross Continental Worldwide Co-production Discussion board (CCF) in Barbados.
They’ll be part of media executives and excessive degree producers from Canada, the UK, South Africa and several other Caribbean nations on the occasion, which goals to encourage collaboration, enterprise growth, and co-productions.
Pounder and Garnes will add some heavyweight hearth energy to proceedings. Recognized for roles within the likes of ER, NCIS: New Orleans, The X Recordsdata and The Protect, she has picked up 4 Primetime Emmy nominations.
Garnes is greatest identified for his work on 2014 characteristic Selma, which was nominated for Finest Image on the Oscars. He was a producer on Ava DuVernay’s 2023 characteristic Origin, a drama on the lifetime of Isabel Wilkerson that shall be screened on the CCF.
The CeventCF is being billed as a first-of-its-kind enterprise established by CaribbeanTales Media Group, Think about Media Worldwide, and The Errol Barrow Centre for Artistic Creativeness on the College of The West Indies. It’s supported by firms together with the British Movie Institute (BFI), the Canada Media Fund (CMF), and the Trinidad and Tobago Movie Co.
“The Cross Continental Discussion board is a superb alternative for UK-based filmmakers to develop connections with filmmaking expertise throughout the Caribbean area with wealthy cultural ties to the UK and Canada,” mentioned Agnieszka Moody, Head of Worldwide Relations on the BFI. “By this initiative, we stay up for enabling compelling, numerous tales instructed collaboratively from a brand new up to date perspective discovering their approach to screens world wide.”
This 12 months, the Discussion board’s guiding focus shall be ‘Decolonizing the co-production course of for the good thing about the International South.’
Six delegates will symbolize the U.Okay., three of whom are members of the Breakthrough Leaders programme supported by BBC, ITV, Sky, Fremantle and Amazon.
“As movie storytellers of the worldwide south, with roots and connections world wide, we have now entry to unimaginable unharnessed tales that can resonate with all our audiences,” mentioned Frances-Anne Solomon, CEO at CaribbeanTales Media Group. “Tall tales of battle and overcoming adversity, of laughter and freedom, and the therapeutic energy of resilience and pleasure”.
FULL LIST OF ATTENDEES
United Kingdom
Carol Harding – Vicarious Productions
David Davis – 5 Acts Manufacturing
Dave Donald – Gallus Media
Nadine Marsh-Edwards – Inexperienced Acre Movies
Sharon King – Superior Productions
Yvonne Ibazebo – Turnover Movies
Canada
Amar Wala – Scarborough Photos
Asis Sethi – Fly Away Movies Inc.
Cazhhmere Downey – Direct Or Die Filmworks
Ella Cooper – Brown Rabbit Studios
Mitra Knight – 1844 Studios
Tristan Barrocks- Mid-Profession Productions
Trinidad & Tobago
Paul Pryce – The Deliverer Ltd
Gina Parris – Gina Parris Leisure
Jamaica
Robert Maylor – Psychological Telepathy Photos
Natalie Thompson – Cinecom Productions
South Africa
Zikethiwe Ngcobo- Fuzebox Movies
Grenada
Meschida Philip – Mprojekts Artistic Group
Dominican Republic
Belle Guzman – Cronos Movies
Barbados
Sanna Allsopp – Parachute Movie Studios
Alison Saunders – Blue Waters Productions Inc.
St. Vincent
Akley Olton – Island Insurgent Media