BIOGRAPHY - DAWN CUMBERBATCH


Dawn is the co-founder and managing director of Doux Doux Darling Productions Limited, a video and event production company. She also owns and manages Virtual Carnival, a creative agency specialising in interactive content to advertise and promote cultural events, sites and traditions.

Dawn's work in film/video production includes co-writing and directing documentaries for the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI), the Inter-American Development Bank, the Employer’s Consultative Association, National AIDS Coordinating Committee, and the Ministry of Social Development. She was line producer on 7 Million Productions’ feature film, The Ghost of Hing King Estate and Shaun Escayg Productions’ Fish; production manager on numerous commercials shot locally, as well as in the Bahamas, Barbados and St. Lucia; production assistant and researcher on London-based Zenith Entertainment's Our House/Our Home series for UKTV Style; Associate Producer for Marathon Films (Paris) for a series of children’s documentaries shot on location in Trinidad; and Production Assistant for Paris-based Dum Dum Films and Rituals Music on several music videos.

Prior to her move to television and film production, Dawn worked in varying capacities from Stage and Business Manager to Producer with Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott and the Trinidad Theatre Workshop since 1992. Dawn has also worked as the Interim Media Relations Director and as the Assistant to the Communications Director at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. as part of the company's prestigious Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship. In the Fellowship programme’s 20- year history, Dawn had the unique honour of being one of only two people invited to participate for a second season at Arena Stage.

In 2001, Dawn was awarded a full scholarship to Boston University where she pursued a degree in film and television with an emphasis on screenwriting and production. Dawn was named Boston University’s Outstanding Student Screenwriter in 2004. Her short film script, Fresh Kills won first prize in the Gary Fleder/Scott Rosenberg Short Screenplay Competition at Boston University and was a finalist in both the Colour of Film Collaborative and the Roy W. Dean New York Film Grant Competitions of 2005.

Upon graduation (summa cum laude) Dawn worked briefly for WABC Boston Channel 5 as a Public Affairs Associate. Upon her return to Trinidad, she garnered the support of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company’s Script Development Fund to develop her feature- length screenplay, Lex Talionis.



Home          
About The Caribbean Memory Project
CUMBERBATCH, DAWN M.