Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase gets going

The Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase is an initiative started in Cuba (2006) in collaboration with UNESCO. In the first year, 106 films from 17 countries were submitted, in the second year 118 films were received from 17 countries and in 2010, a total of 217 films were submitted.

The three-year-old Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase has received support from many countries within the Caribbean with participation by 22 countries in the first year and by 2009, it had expanded to 24 regional countries of the Caribbean region.

Members of the 2010 Selection Committee, which comprised Rigoberto Lopez, Cuban film maker and President of the Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase, Carla Foderingham, CEO of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company, Norman de Palm, writer-producer of Curacao and Rassoul Labuchin, Haitian film maker/writer, were impressed with the quality of the 2010 films.

The films of the 2010 Travelling Film Showcase will next be translated and sub-titled converting the four main languages of the Caribbean, French, Dutch, Spanish and English featured on the films. Copies of the films will be made and sent to the countries participating in screening the Travelling Film Showcase films.