This year The Creators of Colour Incubator (CCI) program will be a year-round development and production hub incorporating both Canadian and United Kingdom residents. It is inclusive of all genders and of colour producers and directors that aims to create strong, compelling and sustainable media content for the global market.
The ultimate goal of the CCI is to increase the pool of world-class indigenous film and television content so as to build global audio-visual capacity.
The Creators of Colour Incubator Program, previously called CaribbeanTales Incubator has hosted over 80 producers from around the world in the last 11 years.
The Program has evolved and in 2014 for the first time, we have re-designed it to encourage, and facilitate the creation of long-running series content. Our reasons for this are primarily market-driven, in terms of what will be sustainable and popular in the current global economic climate.
In our inaugural year, we had a staggering 25 filmmakers across the region participate in the launch of our incubator.
Since then, we have tailored our programming to a specific selection process to include only a maximum of 15 participants a year to accommodate the intensive nature of the program to ensure adequate training both in group and one-one sessions for the participants.
Victoria Anderson-Gardner & Laura Friedman for the feature drama
Lisa Rideout
for the feature documentary
The feedback given has been extremely helpful but as also been motivation to keep moving forward in my career. The excellent choice of helpful mentors and the feedback from the professionals after my pitch was much needed. I was especially grateful for the feedback given on my script by the story editor- script writing can be such a solitary process – her professional feedback was a gift. I hope the program continues to move forward from strength to strength
Regardless of your level of expertise, the workshops are an excellent venue to hone your craft. The mentors really push you to go further so to get those pitches as concise and catchy as possible. It helps to get ideas and comments from other people which serve as a springboard to actual pitches.
I can say that the Creators of Colour Incubator program has elevated my status in the Dominican film community. The things I learned in the program, like preparing for a professional pitch, definitely aided in securing the funds for my first feature film, which I’ll be producing next month.
