Jagdeo pledges $30M more to local film production

President Bharrat Jagdeo lifts the curtain to the film endowment Project in the presence of award winning American film maker Brian Zahm (left from President), Project Manager Paloma Mohamed film cast and crew at the Theatre Guild of Guyana. (GINA photo)

President Bharrat Jagdeo pledged $30M to spur the growth of locally produced films, minutes after the premiere of eight short films financed under a project to support a film industry here.

At the Theatre Guild on Thursday evening, Project Manager Paloma Mohamed joined the president, film casts and crews to open the project, before a packed audience. According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release, the films were made over a packed four-month period where