MCO: Communications Ministry to help production houses with loans from Penjana, says Saifuddin
Saturday, 20 Jun 2020 06:00 PM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 — The Communications and Multimedia Ministry will be focusing on assisting local production houses to produce more movies and dramas in the next six months, through soft loans totalling RM100 million under the National Economic Recovery Plan . “Therefore, in these six months, we will be utilising the funds allocated under Penjana and any other available funds in the best way possible, because we understand that no shooting was done in the past three months.
He said this after visiting veteran actor Abu Bakar Juah, 72, who is suffering from liver cancer complications, at his home in Alam Damai, Cheras here in conjunction with the ‘Ziarah Kasih’ programme organised by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia .
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