Panterona
Cosplay Judge
Panterona is an award winning cosplayer, fashion/costume designer and convention organiser from the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
Cosplay Judge
Panterona is an award winning cosplayer, fashion/costume designer and convention organiser from the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago. She has been actively cosplaying for the past 20 years and has created a plethora of costumes of varying technical difficulty, from the worlds of anime, comics, cartoons, games and much more. She has also won a number of cosplay competitions around the world, most notably, the London Film and Comic Con Cosplay Championships in 2015, the Best Modern Creation Category at Blizzconline 2021 and the Grand Prize at the Gamers without Borders International Cosplay Competition in 2021.
Panterona has travelled to conventions and judged cosplay competitions around the world from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom, France, Italy, The United States, Canada and the World Cosplay Summit in Japan! She has also been the resident Head Judge for the Caribbean Cosplay Championships from its inception for the past seven years.
Panterona has produced numerous Ready to Wear and Carnival Monday wear collections over the past 8 years. She created and pioneered the ‘carnival style’ of cosplay and these talents were showcased as the Head of the first ever Cosplay Carnival band in the Caribbean in 2018. The Band went on to place fourth in the National Carnival Commission Parade of the Bands Competition, which is the biggest Carnival Competition in the Caribbean.
Panterona is also the Executive Director of the biggest pop culture convention in her country, “ALIAS Entertainment Expo” and the Editor in Chief of the only pop culture magazine of its kind in the English Speaking Caribbean, ALIAS Magazine.
She has also Co-directed and produced a television program following cosplayers as they created their competition pieces for both the Caribbean Cosplay Championships and the World Cosplay Summit Preliminaries in Trinidad and Tobago called “Project ALIAS”. This show was broadcast for two seasons on the biggest local television channel ‘TV6’.
Panterona sees cosplay as the perfect avenue for creative self expression and believes that anyone can become whoever they want to be regardless of race, size, gender etc and uses her platform to inspire and encourage acceptance and equality within the cosplay and pop culture community.
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