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Cinema and audiovisual media |
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Survey on National Cinematography |
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The following questions attempted to quantify the size of the national cinematography sectors and their organizational degree. – Do film-makers, directors and/or technicians benefit from a national legal status? – Do national professional associations exist for filmmakers and other cinema-related professions? – How many professionals are involved in the audiovisual sector? – Please indicate the approximate number of companies offering services to the cinema and audiovisual sector in your country. Please also give the approximate number of employees for each group. It seemed difficult to understand the concept of a ‘legal status for filmmakers’. In fact this professional condition might depend more on the adhesion to self-regulating bodies like unions and professional organizations than to any legally defined category. Professional associations in the United States of America number more than one hundred, while in European countries there are from four to fifteen, and from one to three in Africa, Latin America or Asia. Only in very few small-producing countries in the Southern Hemisphere are professionals not yet well organized. Only a few correspondents answered the question on the number of film-producing companies, which makes any conclusion hazardous. However, for those countries where data is available it appears that specialized television and video studios are much more numerous than cinematography companies and specialized film services. Consequently the ratio between professionals operating in the audiovisual sector – mainly television – and those specializing in cinematography is seven to three, and does not vary much in the different continents or between categories of large- or small-producing countries. The number of professionals involved in film production and distribution varies from 0.6% (34,000 professionals) of the total population in France, to 0.1% (10,000 professionals) in a medium-producing country like Portugal and 0.2% (198 professionals) in a small-producing country like Mali. In the United States of America, by comparison, 3.5 million people are employed in what is called there the ‘core copyright business’. Last update 02/10/01 |
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