NURTURING LOCAL CREATIVE TALENTS IN SABAH

BusinessToday speaks to Geoffrey Sinn, founder of Studio ACE Production on nurturing local creatives talents in the digital creative content industry in Sabah. The company believes that underserved talents should be given opportunities to unlock their potential and shine in the global stage.

-  Poovenraj Kanagaraj

1. Can you share more on the Sustainable Creative Talent Incubation Program and some of its milestones?

It started as an internal training program for our team or artists and animators with goals of growing them into leaders. But later the program expanded into the current incubation program when I realised It is significant to have more animation companies in Sabah to enable the ecosystem.

The objective of the incubation program is to prepare creative talents to be self-sustainable in the industry as an entrepreneur. Especially in Sabah where there are almost no animation jobs available, they will need to be resourceful and vigilant to survive.

2. What were some of the milestones achieved by the Programme?

We reached our first goal when one of the team members won IPCC grant from MDEC in 2019, then followed by another team member whose webcomic has garnered over 40k subscribers online, and our latest milestone is two of our team members established their own company after winning RM50,000 grant from DC3 contest organised by MDEC in 2020.

3. What are the areas of focus for the Programme?