A reel-life revival

A file image of local extras dressed as Thai horsemen preparing for scenes in ‘Anna and the King’ near the Ipoh Railway Station. The production of the movie is believed to have injected millions into the state’s economy.

THE state government is gearing up efforts to revitalise the Perak Film Office in hopes of turning Perak into a film hub.

Despite having set up the Film Office in 2012 to encourage film-makers to shoot and carry out their post-production work in Perak itself, State Tourism, Arts, Culture, Communi­cations and Multimedia Committee chairman Datuk Nolee Ashilin Mohd Radzi said Perak had yet to fully build on exposure from the films made here in the past.