Cinema of Colombia

Cinema of Colombia
Garras de oro (1926)
No. of screens	815 (2013)[1]
• Per capita	1.9 per 100,000 (2013)[1]
Main distributors	Cine Colombia 37.9% United International Pictures 34.8% IACSA 16.6%[2]
Produced feature films (2013)[3]
Total	26
Number of admissions (2013)[4]
Total	43,817,971
National films	2,163,964 (4.9%)
Gross box office (2013)[4]
Total	COP 353 billion
National films	COP 15.5 billion (4.4%)

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Cinema of Colombia refers to film productions made in Colombia, or considered Colombian for other reasons. Colombian cinema, like any national cinema, is a historical process with industrial and artistic aspects.

Historically, Colombian cinema has not been profitable as an industry, which has prevented continuing production and employing filmmakers and technicians.^[5] During the first decades of the 20th century, there were some companies that attempted to maintain a constant level of production, but the lack of economic support and strong foreign competition ended up ruining the initiatives. In the 1980s, the newly created state-run Cinematographic Development Company (Compañía de Fomento Cinematográfico FOCINE) allowed some productions to be carried out. However, the company had to be liquidated in the early 1990s.^[6]

In 1997 the Colombian Congress approved Law 397 of Article 46, or the General Law of Culture, with the purpose of supporting the development of the Colombian film industry by creating a film promotion mixed fund called Corporación PROIMAGENES en Movimiento (PROIMAGES in Motion Corporation).^[7] Starting in 2003, there has been growing cinematographic activity, thanks to the Cinema Law that allowed initiatives around cinematographic activity to be reborn in the country, through the creation of the Cinematographic Development Fund (FDC).