Cinema of Chile
| Cinema of Chile | |
|---|---|
| No. of screens | 347 (2013) |
| • Per capita | 2.0 per 100,000 (2011) |
| Main distributors |
Andes Films 28.0% UIP 22.0% Warner 19.0% |
| Produced feature films (2011) | |
| Fictional | 13 (56.5%) |
| Animated | - |
| Documentary | 10 (43.5%) |
| Number of admissions (2013) | |
| Total | 21,019,442 |
| National films | 1,914,511 (9.1%) |
| Gross box office (2013) | |
| 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 film 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 (1970). After the 1973 military coup, film production was low, with many filmmakers working in exile. It increased after the end of the regime in 1989, with many critical successes, such as Johnny Cien Pesos (1993), Historias de Fútbol (1997) and Gringuito (1998).
Box office success came in the late 1990s and early 2000s with films like El Chacotero Sentimental: la película (1999), Sexo con Amor (2003), Subterra (2003), and Machuca (2004). Later widely surpassed by Stefan v/s Kramer (2012) and Sin filtro (2016).
In recent years, Chilean films have made regular appearances at international film festivals and awards, with No (2012) becoming the first Chilean film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
On 17 February 1895 entrepreneur Francisco de Paola presented the first Kinetoscope, an early motion picture exhibition device, in Santiago. Next year, on 25 August 1896, the first Cinématographe reels were shown to an astounded audience in Santiago. These were the same movies that only eight months earlier, the Lumiere Brothers had shown in Paris.
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