It is anticipated that under the project, the KingstOOn 4 Animation Festival will be hosted in April 2021.
The Government of Jamaica will be executing an Apprenticeship (Scholarship) Programme in the upcoming fiscal year, which will see 80 animators being trained in intensive 2D and 3D animation.
This is to be facilitated under the Youth Employment in Digital and Animation Industries project, for which $207.5 million has been allotted in the 2021/22 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives.
Also, for the new fiscal year, it is anticipated that under the project, the KingstOOn 4 Animation Festival will be hosted in April 2021; 300 participants, who were trained in digitisation, will be placed in internships; the hosting of the National Science Fair/Youth Innovators Competition will be supported; the Policy Note and Strategic Plan for the Animation Industry will be completed and the refurbishing and equipping of four community centres will be completed.