SAVANT Ltd is an independent video production company based in Trinidad and Tobago.  Begun in 2004, SAVANT has produced several television productions that cross genres and expose viewers to vibrant and engaging stories from around the Caribbean and beyond.  SAVANT’s productions include the cooking and lifestyle series, Sancoche, the documentary films The Insatiable Season, The Solitary Alchemist and Smallman: The World My Father Made, and the documentary series Inward Hunger: The Story of Eric Williams and Unfinished Sentences. Our commissioned work, most notably for The Parliament Channel, includes the limited series West Indies at War and Within These Walls.

SAVANT is grounded firmly in the Caribbean, with shows focused on the region. It is particularly interested in addressing the dearth of Caribbean-produced programmes.  Its mission is to provide a face and a voice to one of the world’s most vibrant regions, with a rich tradition of multiculturalism. The Caribbean is our entry point to the rest of the world: our stories are universal and transcend geographical and cultural boundaries.

SAVANT is a development and production company, dividing its time between creating content and producing projects.  It has a talented crew of award-winning producers, production and post-production staff which produces programmes that are visually rich, thought-provoking and above all entertaining.

Our director, Mariel Brown took over the leadership of Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival in November 2024 to magnify her work to build the screen industries in the Caribbean. Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival celebrates films from and about the Caribbean and its diaspora through a flagship annual festival, a Carnival film series and a UK-based screening series as well as other year-round screenings. We also seek to nurture the growth of Caribbean cinema by offering a wide-ranging industry programme and networking opportunities.