Telling Our Stories by Any Means Necessary - An Open Call to Animators in T&T

This year sees another fantastic groundbreaking collaboration between CaribbeanTales and the Animae Caribe Animation and New Media Festival.

LETS TELL OUR STORIES BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
BRING EVERYTHING……… LETS EXPERIMENT 

Animation Documentary is a relatively new genre that has a very challenging premise.  How can you document reality using animation, and mix media without compromising the authenticity and truth of the message?

‘Ulric Cross: A Hero for All Time’ is a production of Hero Film, directed by Frances Anne Solomon in collaboration with Caribbean Tales and Animae Caribe Animation Festival. The film tells the story of Trinidadian icon Ulric Cross through live action, archive, recreation and animation, a contemporary pulling together of different forms of expression old and new to tell a timeless story of one man's heroism.  

Frances-Anne describes the concept of the film: “Ulric Cross is ‘a hero for all time’ because he participated in key moments of history, like the second world war; the independence movements in Africa and the Caribbean; the rise of a new kind of black leadership post the Black Power Revolution in seventies' Trinidad; the coming of age of Caribbean societies in the eighties and nineties – incidents and shifts that have defined our present reality as Caribbean people." 

Co-producer Camille Selvon Abrahams explains: “To get the ball rolling we are inviting animators, artists illustrators and new media artists to an innovative interactive experimental FREE one day workshop to begin the process of experimentation.” 

Walk with everything: cameras, clay, models, foil, fabric, crayons, laptops...BRING EVERYTHING!  

This event will take place on Thursday 3rd of May at 4pm.  For more info email Frances-Anne or  Camille at CaribbeanTales@gmail.com or call  1 868 773 6051