Cinema of Chile

Cinema of Chile
No. of screens	347 (2013)[1]
• Per capita	2.0 per 100,000 (2011)[2]
Main distributors	Andes Films 28.0% UIP 22.0% Warner 19.0%[3]
Produced feature films (2011)[4]
Fictional	13 (56.4%)
Animated	3 (1.2%)
Documentary	10 (43.5%)
Number of admissions (2013)[1]
Total	21,019,442
National films	1,914,511 (9.1%)
Gross box office (2013)[1]
Total	CLP 62 billion
National films	CLP 6.6 billion (10.7%)

Chilean cinema refers to all films produced in Chile or made by Chileans. It had its origins at the start of the 20th century with the first Chilean film screening in 1902 and the first Chilean feature film appearing in 1910. The oldest surviving feature is El Húsar de la Muerte (1925), and the last silent film was Patrullas de Avanzada (1931). The Chilean film industry struggled in the late 1940s and in the 1950s, despite some box-office successes such as El Diamante de Maharajá. The 1960s saw the development of the "New Chilean Cinema", with films like Three Sad Tigers (1968), Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969) and Valparaíso mi amor (1969). After the 1973 military coup, film production was low, with many filmmakers working in exile. It increased after the end of the Pinochet regime in 1989, with occasional critical and/or popular successes such as Johnny cien pesos (1993), Historias de Fútbol (1997) and Gringuito (1998).

Greater box office success came in the late 1990s and early 2000s with films like El Chacotero Sentimental: la película (1999), Sexo con Amor (2003), Sub Terra (2003), and Machuca (2004) all of which were surpassed by Stefan v/s Kramer (2012) and Sin filtro (2016).

In recent years, Chilean films have made increasingly regular appearances at international film festivals, with No (2012) becoming the first Chilean film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and A Fantastic Woman (2017) the first to win it.^[5]