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A Future Studio For Belize Film?
posted (November 22, 2019)
Last week we told you that the films "My Father Belize" and "Tecuani and the Duende" had won first place in the category of Best Belizean short film.

Well, the Belize Film Commission is more than encouraged by these successes and to prove its commitment to the continued development and production of Belizean films, Film Commissioner Nigel Miguel has gotten a major partner to sign on.

He today announced the signing of a statement of intention with Asian philanthropist Malini Saba of Saba Industries to fund and operate a fully functioning, self-sustaining film studio and film production facility in Belize. Now, if it sounds too good to be true - we thought so too.

And that's we asked to the film commissioner today:

Miguel says groundbreaking on the studio complex is expected to be carried out in 2020.




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