PETALING JAYA, June 16 -- The National Film Development Corporation (Finas) has been tasked to come up with a roadmap in order for local films to win in the much-coveted Academy Awards, or popularly known as the Oscars.

Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah told a press conference today that the plan dubbed "Project Oscar" will be a medium-to-long-term plan that may probably take the Malaysian film industry around 20 to 30 years to achieve.

"We call it Project Oscar or Roads to Oscar - basically we are putting a target and then trying to work out how to achieve the target.

"It's just like trying to achieve the gold medal at Olympics, there must be a target, programme, planning and when we will achieve it," sai...