About
Making Caribbean audiovisual talent visible
CFCDb is an open-source initiative led by ANISOTROPIE to connect professionals, productions and institutions across film, sound, animation and post-production.
Where CFCDb comes from
CFCDb starts with a problem I encounter myself. When I develop a project, I need to know who can do what, at what level, and where that person is.
In the Caribbean, this information exists, but it is scattered across address books and personal networks. I have been thinking about it for ten years.
Talking about it with people around me, I found that colleagues and partners faced the same problem. Everyone agreed that a tool was needed. Not everyone could build it.
At some point, someone has to decide to act and make the tool. I curate and lead organisations: designing systems, putting them in place and making them last is my work. CFCDb is one form of that work.
I am not trying to put one person forward. I am trying to solve concrete problems in my territory, the kind I am invited to discuss elsewhere. CFCDb answers my problem, and many others happen to share it.
So I am proposing a tool and inviting everyone to make it their own. Its use by professionals is what will make it alive and effective.
“You are always one professional away from your goal.”
Why CFCDb?
Caribbean audiovisual talent exists, but it often remains invisible outside immediate networks. Local and regional productions struggle to find skills available in the territory and sometimes recruit from elsewhere, not for lack of know-how but for lack of a reference tool.
CFCDb fills that gap with a public, trilingual, skills-based directory, complemented by a job board and a community that keeps it alive.
Our vision
Become the open reference tool for Caribbean audiovisual production: quickly find a professional by skill, territory and availability while connecting jobs with local talent.
Territory first
Priority to the visibility of Caribbean skills, at home and abroad.
Openness
Public source code (PolyForm noncommercial licence), free access, no ads or third-party trackers.
Technical sobriety
Easy-to-maintain technologies, controlled hosting and data sovereignty.
Declarative trust
Profiles filled by the people themselves, verifiable links and light moderation.
Native multilingualism
Interface and referentials in French, English and Spanish.
Playful engagement
Badges, completion score and progression to energise the community.
What CFCDb offers
A directory, a job board, and what keeps them alive: the community.
The directory
Each professional declares their roles and a level from 1 to 7 for each one. Search by skill, territory and availability across 197 roles in 22 departments.
The job board
Productions publish projects and the roles they need, with a minimum level. Apply with your CFCDb profile, without attaching a CV.
The community
A tool only lives when people use it. Discord for daily mutual help, News for shoots, training and festivals: this is where the network speaks.
Who is it for?
Professionals
Technicians, creatives, freelancers and production companies.
Recruiters
Producers, institutions, broadcasters and casting teams.
Institutions
Schools, federations, local authorities and funding bodies.
How it is made
Open source and technology
CFCDb is released under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 licence: the code is open to contributions (fixes, translations and improvements), without commercial use. Derivative works must be distributed under the same licence, with source attribution.
Astro (server-rendered), MariaDB and infrastructure under our control. A progressive web application for fast mobile browsing.
Quality commitments
- Target accessibility: Level AA (RGAA 4.1, WCAG 2.1)
- Multilingual SEO: localised URLs, hreflang and structured data
- GDPR: cookie consent and personal data rights
- Security: strong authentication, CSRF protection and report moderation
Governance
Project led by ANISOTROPIE association (Martinique). Editorial contact: Georges-Emmanuel Arnaud.
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Make the tool yours
Create your profile in minutes, publish a project and join Discord: using it is how we make Caribbean skills visible.