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

The Caribbean Tales Media Group CaribbeanTales Media group is an example of institutional development in Caribbean-EU creative sector trade relations. CaribbeanTales provides a ‘one-stop shop’ for audiovisual creators in the Caribbean and its diaspora by facilitating the market entry, distribution and monetization of Caribbean- themed content. CaribbeanTales launched its “3D” Project in 2014 (which stands for Digital, Domestic, and Diaspora Distribution) and aims to expand markets and contribute to the Caribbean film industry’s global competitiveness. The “3D” project is financed in part by the European Union’s ACP Cultures+ Programme. The CaribbeanTales Incubator programme is in its ninth year and has hosted over 60 filmmakers from around the region and the diaspora. The incubator focuses on the creation of long- running serial content in response to the shift in demand for online television series. CaribbeanTales also provides an accelerator programme, a specialized and intensive market integration programme to fast-track export-ready film projects and to assist filmmakers in preparing and pitching their projects to prospective funders, investors and distributors. Accelerators have been held in the Caribbean (Belize (2016) and Cuba (2016 and 2017)), South Africa (CineFAM 2017) and in Canada (Digital Animation sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2017). CaribbeanTales routinely participates in film markets like the Durban Film Market, the Cannes Film Festival, and the Havana International Film Festival. In terms of targeting the EU, CaribbeanTales has been engaging directly with French overseas territories like Martinique and Guadeloupe. The Creative Industries Innovation Fund The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has established the Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF) as a multi-donor fund launched in December 2018. The US$2.8 million project seeks to support enabling environments for the development of cultural industries in the Bank’s Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) with a focus on legislative reforms and incentive policies; to improve the quality, depth and dissemination of research

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