Three of the Caribbeans leading film producers will develop pilots for original TV series projects thanks to funding from Cable & Wirelesss Flow and CaribbeanTales Media Group.

With $40,000 funding for each project, production work will begin on Battle Chronicle, a sci-fi/drama animated series created by Alain Bidard; and continue with Heat, a drama series filmed in Barbados from Menelik Shabazz, and Caribbean Girl NYC, a female-driven sitcom from New York-based Guadeloupian filmmaker Mariette Monpierre.

We recognise the significant hurdles that Caribbean producers face in financing and producing their content, and getting it out to audiences, said John Reid, CEO of Cable and Wireless, operator of Flow. We are honoured to help support this programme that is enabling the production and monetisation of this exciting emerging cultural industry.

Production on the pilots will begin in April 2017 and all of them will premiere this year at the 12th annual CaribbeanTales International Film Festival(CTFF)(CTFF), of which Flow is also a sponsor. It will be held in Toronto, Canada, between 6 and 20 September.

Frances-Anne Solomon, CEO of CaribbeanTales, added: We are delighted that, together with Flow, we are able to provide the Caribbeans top filmmakers with funding and a platform to produce top quality, local, content with the capacity to reach audiences across the region and the world.

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