Mid-Year Budget Review: What happened to the GH¢40m promise to Ghana’s creative industry?

Interestingly, just days after the Mid-Year Budget Review, President John Dramani Mahama, while receiving farewell calls from the outgoing Swiss Ambassador and Australian High Commissioner, disclosed that the GH¢20 million Film Fund had already been disbursed and that industry stakeholders were determining how the money should be invested.

Government responded by announcing two flagship interventions, a GH¢20 million Film Fund and a GH¢20 million Creative Arts Fund.

He also reaffirmed that another GH¢20 million had been allocated to the Creative Arts Fund to support practitioners across the wider sector.