Impact Study: UNESCO-Aschberg Programme for Artists and Cultural Professionals

Table 2 • Caribbean projects under the ACP Cultures+ Funding Programme 27

Project Objectives Audiovisual distribution

EU Funding (share of total budget)

Recipients

Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival Company Ltd, Trinidad and Tobago

339,301.14 (76.92%)

Cristo Rey, Les films de L’astre, France

Film production 285,633.61 (40%)

Meurtre à Pacot, Velvet Film, France

Film production 300,000.00 (35.74%)

Re-percussions - Pan! L’Odyssée Africaine- Maturity Music Limited, Trinidad and Tobago Sparring Partners: supporting young video artists by development of opportunities and network - GVC Onlus (Gruppo di Volontariato Civile), Italy The “3D”Distribution Project: Digital, Domestic and Diaspora Distribution of Caribbean-themed audio-visual content - Caribbean Tales Worldwide Distribution Inc. CTWD, Barbados

Film production 75,000.00 (23.17%)

Training on audiovisual

500,000.00 (80%)

Film distribution

274,096.40 (61.52%)

Total Funding (2012–2017)

1,774,031.15

The EU’s major cultural programme, now called Creative Europe (previously Culture ), is mainly geared towards EU countries and does not expressly support cultural cooperation with CARIFORUM States, despite the fact that non-European countries such as Brazil, China and Mexico, have benefitted from the programme. One smaller-scale initiative that has focused on the creative sector is the Regional Task Force on Cultural Industries (RTFCI), established in2008andfinancedby theEuropeanUnion, through the Hub and Spokes Trade Project, which is administered by the Commonwealth Secretariat in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat. The RTFCI gave 20 individuals fromacross the region (Ministers of Culture, Trade and Finance, representatives from regional organizations, such as the CARICOM Office of Trade Negotiations and Caribbean Export, and representatives from the audiovisual, music and festival industries) the mandate of mobilizing responses to the EPA’s cultural provisions and of ensuring a coherent policy across the Caribbean community.

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27. ACP Secretariat (2018) How the ACP Cultures+ Programme contributed to the structuring of cultural industries in ACP countries: 5 Years Results Impact Data . ACP Secretariat, Brussels.