The cinema of Angola currently suffers from financial issues around the funding of new films.[1] In the early 2000s, the Angolan government helped fund a small number of films, however this programme stopped towards the end of the decade.[1] During this time the film The Hero was filmed in Angola and won the World Dramatic Cinema Jury Grand Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.[2] The first cinemas in Angola were built in the 1930s,[3] with a total of 50 being built by the middle of the 1970s.[4][5] Many are now in a state of disrepair, but there is an effort to restore some of them.[6]
| Cinema of Angola | |
|---|---|
| Produced feature films | |
| Total | 50 |
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edit- ^ a b "Angola film industry at a glance". Buala. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- ^ The Hero Archived 11 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine California Newsreel
- ^ "Cinemas of Angola: From the closed to the open space". Cine Africa. Archived from the original on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- ^ "The unique and distinctive architectural style of Angola's cinemas". Design Indaba. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- ^ "Angolan Cinemas: Past and Present Tense". Africas a Country. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- ^ "Screen stars: Rescuing Angola's stunning historic cinemas". CNN. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
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