The CCI Accelerator Program (CAP) is a specialized Business and Creative Film Intensive specifically designed to ‘accelerate’ emerging filmmakers by helping them to prepare and pitch their projects to prospective funders in a short period of time. We hold accelerators in collaboration with different organisations and companies around the world, where participants are exposed to CaribbeanTales’ unique process.
Under the guiding hand of experienced industry professionals, the CCI Accelerator offers participants a great overview and guide on how to create the basis of story, marketing, pitching and financing.The winner of each CCI Accelerator Program will automatically be shortlisted and will have an opportunity to compete for a place on The Market Incubator Program.Our inaugural year launches this program in the following countries:
Stretching our reach, breaking language barriers and uniting in telling our unique stories throughout the entire Caribbean Region.
Promoting Authentic and Underrepresented Voices in Cuba
Participants of CCI2018 Market Incubator Program
& Winners of the “CCI Cuba Visual Civic Activism Award”
Gloria Rolando
A beautifully constructed love letter transforming a 1993 interview conducted by the Cuban filmmaker with her grandmother, into a celebration of not only her grandmother’s legacy but also a tribute to the larger history, struggle and tenacity of Black Cubans and Black Cuban women in particular.” — Pan African Film Festival 2017, where it is nominated for Best Short Documentary Filmmaker Gloria Rolando explores a dialog with her grandmother in a film that features the first depictions of Syncretic Spiritism (Espiritismo cruzado) along with Congo traditions, practices that are widespread in Cuba.
Patricia Ramos
In Havana, on a roof, three young friends gather every day to tell stories and dreams, to treat that time passes without notice. In the midst of his boredom, without money and dreaming prosperity, they decide to set up their own business. The cost of this dream, finally, will lead them to not exempt from certain happiness personal maturity.
On the ground Cuba Coordinator
Leona Ford is most known for her incredible contribution and passion in the world of cricket. A retired English professor, she has been an instigator of and driving force behind the resurgence of Cuban cricket over the last decade or so, reviving a sport that had all but died and turned into a thriving concern. Her father Leonard Ford was a known Cuba’s Cricket Pioneer arrived in Cuba in 1928. Leona is most impressive, a woman who has supported the revolution by working for many years in Ethiopia and whose university specialization in English has enabled her to travel widely back to Jamaica, as well as to the US, Canada, and the UK and single-handedly revived the status of Cricket. She persuaded the ICC to award Cuba affiliate status. In 2006 cricket was adopted as Cuba’s 38th official sport which allowed it to be taught in schools.
Project: Rumba (series) – This production examines the history of the Rumba and how it developed similar to African American dances as a form of expression within slavery and colonialism.
Roberto Zubano, Magia Lopez, Araceley Rodriguez, Deyni Abreuaka Club Spectrum
Project: Abriendo Puertas (series) – This documentary series follows the Club Spectrum highlighting the “activist past” of the Club Spectrum creators and their influence on current figures as they aim to redefine their lives amid new political, social, and economic contexts within the island.
Gretel Mendieta and Geraldine Orta
Project: Pure Sentimiento (film)– This silently political production follows an LGBTQ Cuban couple in their day-to- day love story..
Maryulis Alfonso
Project:Dragon Rojo (film) explores the fundamental freedom to participate as a private vendor.
The Digital Animation Accelerator is a unique two-day intensive pitch workshop that will help up to 10 selected Canadian creators of colour to develop their animated digital short projects.
On completion of the workshop, three (3) final projects will be selected to receive a commission of $1000.00 each to produce a “proof of concept”. The three finalists will go on to participate in the CaribbeanTales Market Incubator Program in September 2017.
From this development process, 1 project will be selected for production.
Deadline: April 30, 2017
The Digital Animation Accelerator is a unique two-day intensive pitch workshop that will help up to 10 selected Canadian creators of colour to develop their animated digital short projects.
On completion of the workshop, three (3) final projects will be selected to receive a commission of $1000.00 each to produce a “proof of concept”. The three finalists will go on to participate in the CaribbeanTales Market Incubator Program in September 2017.
From this development process, 1 project will be selected for production.
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CineFAM Africa – presented with the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), Durban Film Mart, and Sisters Working in Film and Television (SWIFT). The challenge will take place on the second week of the Durban International Film Festival 2017, where SWIFT and CaribbeanTales will offer a no-budget filmmaking workshop. A theme will be announced and filmmakers will have five days to write, shoot, edit and upload their films.
Pancakes for dinner (working title) is a 13 episode, 2 minute candid unscripted animated documentary. Both adults and children will be asked about anecdotes about their favourite or most despised food and the why it is the case. One of my inspirations for this project is a short film and then TV series, Creature Comfort by The BBC and directed by Aardman animation.
Kojo, a poetic wise ten-year-old from Ghana west Africa and Ralph his quirky immature brother who also happens to be a purple giraffe go on daily adventures as they try to adapt to a new world called Canada which they now must call home.
Kojo, a poetic wise ten-year-old from Ghana west Africa and Ralph his quirky immature brother who also happens to be a purple giraffe go on daily adventures as they try to adapt to a new world called Canada which they now must call home.
Kojo, a poetic wise ten-year-old from Ghana west Africa and Ralph his quirky immature brother who also happens to be a purple giraffe go on daily adventures as they try to adapt to a new world called Canada which they now must call home.
