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Pro?ling
Creative Industry Entrepreneurs
Five Key Questions with a Creative Industry Entrepreneur
In this section we pro?le four creative industry entrepreneurs. In the ?rst segment, Alison Saunders of Blue Waters Productions, discusses the progress and future of the Barbadian creative economy. Five (5) key questions were asked to document her experiences and observations of this sector in Barbados. Next, we highlight Teneille Doyle and her agency Made in March, music consultant, Phil Phillips, and music entrepreneur Santia Bradshaw. What innovations have your company brought to the industry in recent years? Blue Waters Productions pioneered the regional theatrical distribution of a Barbadian feature length ?lm through the production Hit for Six! This ?lm also was innovative in the partnerships created between the creative talent and business in Barbados and the involvement in one venture of equity partners from the private and public sectors as well as the Barbadian diaspora.
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has to be modi?ed since the current ?nancial and market realities would make it dif?cult to achieve pro?tability. Hit for Six! However brought to Barbados a true Caribbean production with high professional standards of operation and with guidance from ?rst world practitioners in areas such as script development, production design, continuity and editing. The director was mentored by internationally acclaimed ?lmmaker Moussa Sene Absa. During the shoot it was amazing to hear Barbadian, Trinidadian, Jamaican, Dominican, UK American and African voices on the set. The ?lm also allowed production in two Caribbean countries - moving cast and crew from Barbados to Trinidad for several days of shooting, which may not have been attempted before.
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Alison Saunders Blue Waters Productions The ?lm project also allowed some equity contributions in kind such as equipment but took a commercial approach of paying most of the cast, crew and other suppliers cash at near market rates, thereby making a signi?cant contribution to the Barbadian and indeed Caribbean economy. This business model however,
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