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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 87605, member: 27"] A GH¢20 million budget slice is all Ghana's film sector got, and one vocal pundit is done pretending that's not a crisis signal. Abena Moet's take on Ghana's film industry [LIST] [*]Abena Moet says the Ghana movie industry has flat-out collapsed, and the budget numbers back her up. [*]Ghana's film sector landed among the lowest-funded categories in the government's allocation. [*]Most industry stakeholders are still in denial about the depth of the sector's slide, she says. [*]Theatre operators are barely scraping together a profit, according to Moet. [/LIST] The GH¢40 million creative arts budget breakdown [LIST] [*]Abena Moet caught the State of the Nation Address and noticed the creative arts pulled just GH¢40 million total. [*]Sectors with bigger budget slices also bring in higher revenue, which is why the gap exists. [*]GH¢20 million of that creative arts pot was directed specifically at the film sector. [*]Moet is pushing for Corporate Ghana's money to flow into the industry as a structural fix. [/LIST] What Moet wants from the agencies handling the funds [LIST] [*]Judicious use of the allocated money is the bare minimum she's asking the managing agencies to deliver. [*]Smart deployment of the funds could have the movie industry back on its feet by next year, she argues. [*]The government taking the sector seriously hinges entirely on whether the money gets used well. [*]Restructuring the agencies to pull in real investment is the long-game move Moet is calling for. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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