Jr Lee’s Canadian series success draws praise at home

The Film Com­mis­sion at Glob­al Trinidad and To­ba­go is con­grat­u­lat­ing lo­cal ac­tor and co­me­di­an Jr Lee (Ger­vail Lemo) for his grow­ing in­ter­na­tion­al pro­file af­ter his role in the Cana­di­an com­e­dy The Of­fice Movers helped se­cure the show’s re­new­al for a third sea­son.

The Com­mis­sion said it sup­port­ed his work visa ap­pli­ca­tion for the project, de­scrib­ing his rise from lo­cal stages to a North Amer­i­can tele­vi­sion se­ries as a sig­nif­i­cant mo­ment for the cre­ative sec­tor. Film Com­mis­sion­er Leslie Ann Wills-Caton said the vis­i­bil­i­ty in­tro­duces for­eign au­di­ences to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cul­ture and strength­ens the ex­port po­ten­tial of cre­ative ser­vices.

She said in­ter­na­tion­al place­ments deep­en soft diplo­ma­cy and cre­ate open­ings for tourism and com­mer­cial part­ner­ships, adding that projects like The Of­fice Movers bring glob­al at­ten­tion to the coun­try’s cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty.