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Published: Monday | April 14, 2014
Kingsley Cooper, chairman of Jamaica's Entertainment Advisory Board, says funding is the greatest challenge that local film producers face, and argues that resurrecting and entering into treaties with foreign governments could advance the sector locally.
A 2001 study presented by Professor Rosalea Hamilton on strategies for employment growth and poverty alleviation revealed that plans were afoot to establish a film fund to facilitate the development of a co-production treaty with Canada.
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Cooper told The Gleaner the failure of Jamaican authorities to find matching funding led to a stillbirth for the project.
"In the end, nothing happened. The proposal was actually for a three-way co-production programme with Canada and the UK," Cooper told The Gleaner.
He revealed that Jamaica is a signatory to a co-production treaty with the UK, which makes the country party to co-production deals with all the countries with which the UK has treaties, including Canada, South Africa and others.
"The challenge is that the proposed co-productions could not be activated unless the Government of Jamaica funded the local end. It cannot be privately funded, and requires a minimum of US$1m. A local governing body also has to be in place. A number of ideas for funding were considered back then, but none bore fruit," Cooper said. more
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