TALAWA MEDIA - THE COMPANY
Rooted in the Jamaican saying “Wi likkle but wi tallawah” (small but mighty), Talawa Media is a Black-led Canadian film and television production company founded by producer Ravelle Thomas.
Talawa grew out of the work that was already happening. After more than a decade helping other companies make film and television, producers and creatives started coming to Ravelle with their own projects, budgets that needed another set of eyes, production models that needed rethinking and shoots that needed someone to figure out how to actually make them work.
That became Talawa.
Today, we develop and produce our own scripted and unscripted film and television, selectively produce projects for other creators, and work with production companies through production consultancy, budgeting and production strategy, production services and international production.
We know the creative, but we also know the money and the machinery underneath it. Does the budget work? Is the right team in place? Who should actually be in the room? Can we deliver what we’re promising?
For us, how the work gets made matters just as much as what ends up on screen.
Good stories. Strong production. The right people in the room.
No matter the size of the project, our impact is always tallawah.
