President Bharrat Jagdeo says he hopes that the films produced through the President’s Film Endowment Project 2011 will promote local culture and see the revival of a true Guyanese identity.
According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release the initiative stemmed from a meeting with stakeholders in the local arts and entertainment industry in November where a small grant of $10M was committed to realise its objectives. Director of the Centre for Communication Studies at the University of Guyana (UG) Dr Paloma Mohamed was appointed to manage the project at that meeting. Proprietor of Kross Kolor records Birchmore Simon also attended the meeting.
During the first half of the year, a number of entities supported the project and it attracted partnership from the
