| 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]
- ^ a b c "Anuario de Cultura y Tiempo Libre – Informe Anual 2013" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ^ "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure – Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "'A Fantastic Woman' Scores Chile's First Foreign Language Oscar Win". 5 March 2018.