Kafi Kareem

Writer/director/producer Kafi Kareem has two family-friendly shorts under her belt, and she’s currently developing her first feature with a team of international producers having recently served as a writing consultant on the 2019 feature film, Queen of Soca.

Kafi won the 2018 Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival’s (ttff) Caribbean Film Mart where her movie pitch was selected by a panel of Hollywood industry professionals from among over a dozen pitches as the strongest for development and production. In 2016, Kafi’s cartoon series pitch nabbed an award at the CaribbeanTales incubator presented by FLOW.

Through experience providing coverage for boutique literary management companies Radmin Company and Madhouse Entertainment, Kafi learned how Hollywood decision makers select movie and television scripts, and she’s eager to pass that knowledge on to other writers. Kafi’s career background includes positions in family content programming, curation and online video publishing for kids content powerhouses Disney and PBS in addition to recent Viacom acquisition Pluto TV.