This weekend is the 2012 International Film Festival, and as a part of the show, the coordinators have brought in a US music producer turned film director to produce a reality TV show which will work the event.
But, this producer comes very equipped to advise Belize on its fledgling music industry.
Today, they held a forum with the local music stakeholders on how to expand the industry.
The coordinator updated us on that advice.
James Sanker, Coordinator - Music Forum
"We basically had a person that came in and talk to us about the industry and what artists in Belize need to do in order to move ahead with their career. This kind of forum we continue to do from MIAB as we continue to develop the industry and our industry is at this point where we need all the advice and assistance to get us to go to the next level."
"We have some of the major components in place already. I would say like we have some solid foundations that have been laid already. What are needed now are directions for our local market and a direction for international market. We have some plans on how to do that, we are working on those plans over the next 5 years - we have a 5 year plan that we are working to build the industry and working on those two major components on how to build a very robust local market and how to penetrate the international market."
As noted in the interview, the Music Association has a 5-year plan which they will implement very soon.
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