Cinema of Georgia

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Cinema of Georgia
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Apollo Cinema in Batumi
No. of screens 23 (2017) [1]
  Per capita0.7 per 100,000 (2017) [1]
Main distributorsFox (London) 25.0%
Buesta Vista Song Pictures 19.0%
Warner Bros 13.0% [2]
Produced feature films (2011) [3]
Fictional12 (85.7%)
Animated-
Documentary2 (14.3%)
Number of admissions (2010) [4]
Total144,039
National films66,200 (46.0%)
Gross box office (2010) [4]
Total GEL 1.25 million
National filmsGEL 626,000 (50.1%)
Former Rustaveli Cinema, Tbilisi Cinema Rustaveli.jpg
Former Rustaveli Cinema, Tbilisi
Rustaveli cinema in Rustavi Rustaveli cinema in Rustavi.jpg
Rustaveli cinema in Rustavi

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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Notable films

Notable filmmakers

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]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure - Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  2. "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  3. "Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Table 11: Exhibition - Admissions & Gross Box Office (GBO)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  5. "FILMFESTIVAL: NEW GEORGIAN CINEMA at TOFIFEST Film festival in Poland (tofifest.pl)". georgien.blogspot.ca. 18 June 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  6. Smith, Ian Hayden (2012). International Film Guide 2012. p. 122. ISBN   978-1-908215-01-7.