Finas fund offer letters to be out soon

PUTRAJAYA: Successful recipients of the first phase of the Creative Industry Immediate Economic Action Plan (Pelaksana) will be notified by the National Film Development Corporation (Finas) very soon.

Finas chairman Zakaria Abdul Hamid said Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah was expected to issue the offer letters next month, subject to the conditional movement control order (MCO).

“Finas hopes that every recipient will be able to draft implementation plans to achieve the objectives of the programme,” he said in a statement.

Pelaksana was launched by Saifuddin in July to provide the much-needed help to the creative industry players through injection of funds between July and December this year.

The fund injection will aid film companies to resume production, in addition to repaying differed debts due to months-long suspension in production as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Zakaria said the creative content accreditation and certification programme, an initiative by Finas in cooperation with the Malaysian Board of Technologists and institutions of higher learning, has been open for registration since Oct 15. For more information, contact the programme secretariat at 03-4104 1747/1748 or visit https:// www.finas.gov.my/program-akreditasi-dan-pentauliahan-industri-kandungan-kreatif/.

Separately, applications for Cereka Khas Kenegaraan film funding and TV/OTT Programme funding through special cooperation with Astro can be made online between Oct 19 and Nov 30 at http://

dkd.finas.gov.my.