Cinema of Angola explained

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]

See also

• List of Angolan films

Notes and References

1. Web site: Angola film industry at a glance . 11 February 2016 . Buala.
2. http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0173 The Hero
3. Web site: Cinemas of Angola: From the closed to the open space . 11 February 2016 . Cine Africa . https://web.archive.org/web/20160213204753/http://www.cineafrica.net/angola/home.php?il=20&l=en . 13 February 2016 . dead .
4. Web site: The unique and distinctive architectural style of Angola's cinemas . 11 February 2016 . Design Indaba.
5. Web site: Angolan Cinemas: Past and Present Tense . 11 February 2016 . Africas a Country.
6. Web site: Screen stars: Rescuing Angola's stunning historic cinemas . 11 February 2016 . CNN.