A US-based Ghanaian actor and movie producer, Yao B. Nunoo has advised Ghanaian movie producers, with lean budgets, to form cooperatives to be able to produce top-notch movies. Yao made this call in an interview with Myjoyonline.com. He advised producers not to look at their individual interest as that could only lead them to produce low standard movies. He said, instead, producers should join forces with others with the little they have to come up with good productions that can sell internationally. He explained that when producers pool their resources together at any given time to fund the production of one person, they will achieve massive results. “If you do it right and you take the right amount of risk, then you are going to get a return on it that allows you to do the other person’s project.” Yao said 15 years ago, Ghana did not have a film industry stating “now I think we have an industry, which is a good thing. I think this industry has come a long way. I think there is a lot of things we can do as well...I see a lot of passion in a lot of people who want to give that entertainment.” “We are not paying attention to sound, framework, and cinematography” which he said are really simple and can change a lot when it comes to final product adding, “The payoff is tremendous in terms of production value.” According to him, the major challenge facing the Ghanaian movie industry today is content, saying there are Ghanaian productions which are direct copy-cut from international productions - a situation he said was not good enough. Yao, writer and lead actor in the movie, The Destiny of Lesser Animals, cautioned that if Ghanaian producers keep copying other productions, “there is no way we are going to put ourselves on the map.” Yao B. Nunoo called on the government to create a film commission which will be a one-stop shop to help producers produce good movies. This help, according to him, could come in the form of support with location, logistics, expert advice and funds. Another way to help the local movie industry, he said, is for government to place an embargo on movies imported into the country. Instances where they are imported into the country and shown at the country’s cinemas, they should be made to pay more so that the profit is channelled into the development of the local movie industry.