Cinema of Colombia

Cinema of Colombia
Garras de oro (1926)
Number of screens	815 (2013)
• Per capita	1.9 per 100,000 (2013)
Main distributors	Cine Colombia 37.9% United International Pictures 34.8% IACSA 16.6%
Produced feature films (2013)
Total	26
Number of admissions (2013)
Total	43,817,971
National films	2,163,964 (4.9%)
Gross box office (2013)
Total	COP 353 billion
National films	COP 15.5 billion (4.4%)

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Cinema of Colombia refers to the film industry based in Colombia. Colombian cinema began in 1897 and has included silent films, animated films and internationally acclaimed movies. Government support included an effort in the 1970s to develop the state-owned Cinematographic Development Company (Compañía de Fomento Cinematográfico FOCINE) which helped produce some films yet struggled to maintain itself financially viable. FOCINE became defunct in 1993. 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). In 2003 Congress also approved the Law of Cinema which helped to restart the cinematographic industry in Colombia.

The history of Colombian cinema started in 1897 when the first Cinématographe arrived in the country, two years after the invention of cinematography by Auguste and Louis Lumière in Paris. Back then the port city of Colón (in what today is Panama but was then part of Colombia), Barranquilla, Bucaramanga and later arrived to the capital city of Colombia, Bogotá, where in August of that same year the cinématographe was presented in the Municipal Theater (later demolished).

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