Cinema of Georgia | |
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No. of screens | 23 (2017) [1] |
• Per capita | 0.7 per 100,000 (2017) [1] |
Main distributors | Fox (London) 25.0% Buesta Vista Song Pictures 19.0% Warner Bros 13.0% [2] |
Produced feature films (2011) [3] | |
Fictional | 12 (85.7%) |
Animated | - |
Documentary | 2 (14.3%) |
Number of admissions (2010) [4] | |
Total | 144,039 |
National films | 66,200 (46.0%) |
Gross box office (2010) [4] | |
Total | GEL 1.25 million |
National films | GEL 626,000 (50.1%) |
The cinema of Georgia has been noted for its cinematography in Europe. Italian film director Federico Fellini was an admirer of the Georgian film: "Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing." [5]
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Georgian cinematography's reputation has been built by known cinema directors such as:
From 2012, the main focus of Georgian cinema is supporting script writing and European co-productions. [6]