UNESCO
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Division of Creativity, Cultural Industries and Copyright
UNESCO (CLT/CIC/BCI)
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Paris 75015 fax +33 (0) 1 45 68 55 95
75732 France e-mail: ll.artigas@unesco.org

QUESTIONNAIRE ON CINEMA

 1. The present questionnaire is intended to collect statistics on certain aspects of cinema activities in the past few years. It differs from previous UNESCO surveys in that it tries to get an overall view, for each country, of national structures and policies (legislation, economy, participants) concerning cinema and the visual arts for each country. The information thus obtained will figure in a widely distributed report.

2. The questionnaire is in three parts: (1) The public sector structure, legislation and state participation; (2) The different participants in the production circuit and the market, following the logic of a film project (script, financing, production, distribution); and (3) education and training programmes.

3. This survey seeks your help in identifying, gathering and forwarding legislation on cinema, copyright, customs and fiscal matters. Any such legal texts in English, French or Spanish would be extremely useful.

4. When completing the questionnaire, please mark cases where no data is available or when the data requested is irrelevant or negligible with the acronym 'NA' (no answer)

5. Please indicate the name and address of the organization providing the data and the name and function of the person filling in the present form.

Name: Address
Tel.
Fax
E-mail
Name of person filling in the form: Occupation
Direct Tel

6. Please do not hesitate to make suggestions or comments to complete the data in this form.

Thank you for your kind assistance.

Part I: Legal basis

1.1 Is there a national policy for cinema or audiovisual industries in your country backed by a legal framework ?
YES NO (NA)
Name________________________ Enforcement year______

1.2 Has your country ratified international or regional agreements concerning copyright protection and free circulation of cultural goods ?
YES NO (NA) For instance:  (Indicate the enforcement year)

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and artistic Works (1979) YES NO (NA) ______
Universal Copyright Convention (Geneva, 1952), revised in Paris, 1971 YES NO (NA) ______
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations (Rome, 1961) YES NO (NA) ______
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms (Geneva,1971) YES NO (NA) ______
The Florence Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials (1950) YES NO (NA) ______
The Nairobi Protocol (1976) to the Florence Agreement YES NO (NA) ______
Others, particularly regional agreements :

1.3. Does a specific national legislation exist aimed at the protection of copyright applicable to the works of authors of cinematographic and audiovisual goods ?

YES NO (NA)
Title Enforcement year

1.4 Is there a specific law for the protection of certain sections of the public (e.g. a law protecting young persons?)

YES NO (NA)
Indicate its aim: Title Enforcement year

1.5 Is there a national law against piracy ?

YES NO (NA)
Title Enforcement year

2. Official organizations

2.1 Is there a national cinematography (regulating) centre ?

YES NO (NA)
Name Function

2.2 Is there a national or government agency for official registration of films or audiovisual materials (e.g. registration of copyrights) ?

YES NO (NA)
Name Year of creation

2.3. Is there a national body for the conservation of film and audiovisual materials ? ( e.g. national archives or film library)

YES NO (NA)
Name Address

3. Inducements

3.1 Does the government contribute to financing film productions ?

YES NO (NA)

3.2 Please indicate the average percentage ceiling of such governmental financial participation ?

%

3.3 Is this participation regarded as a direct government grant ?

YES NO (NA)

3.4 Are the funds managed by professionals themselves ?

YES NO (NA)

3.5.1 Are they considered advances on ticketing revenues ?

YES NO (NA)

3.5.2 Do ticket taxes directly feed a special production fund ?

YES NO (NA)

3.6 Are there direct grants for film distribution (e.g. to finance copying or advertising campaigns) ?

YES NO (NA)

3.7 Is there a tax-reduction scheme to encourage film investors ?

YES NO (NA)

4. Financing

4.1 Are there other regular financing sources for film production ?

YES NO (NA)

4.1.1 Is there private sector funding for films ?

YES NO (NA)

4.1.2 Are there particular grants for young filmmakers ?

YES NO (NA)

4.1.3 Are there individual grants for script-writing ?

YES NO (NA)

4.2 Is there tax exemption for production companies, labs or studios ?

YES NO (NA)

4.3 Other kinds of financing

4.3.1 Does any film-funding come from abroad ?

YES NO (NA)

4.3.2. Specify the sources Bilateral international co-operation

YES NO (NA)

Multilateral co-operation

YES NO (NA)

Other official foreign investments

YES NO (NA)

4.3.3 What is the average percentage of foreign financing in an international film co-production?  (National production or co-production here indicates a professional project with local financing, a national producer and processed in the country.  An international production, on the other hand, is a project in which at least one participant or process comes from abroad)

% (NA)

4.4. Are the public or privately owned television companies compelled to contribute in film financing ?

YES NO (NA)

4.4.1 Is this contribution a mandatory fixed share /quota to support the film industry ?

YES NO (NA)

4.4.2 Is it an advance on broadcasting rights ?

YES NO (NA)

4.4.3 Is it a kind of financial guarantee ?

YES NO (NA)

4.5 What is the average percentage of broadcasting's financial contribution to film production ?

YES NO (NA)

4.6 If the government (through ministerial departments, official agencies, but excluding public broadcasters) finances film production or audiovisual materials, please give an estimate of the number of productions receiving grants and the average share for each production in US.$. for the following categories per year (NUMBER AMOUNT US.$.)

4.6.1 Institutional productions

Yes No NA $

4.6.2 Educational productions

Yes No NA $

4.6.3 Cultural productions

Yes No NA $

4.6.4 Feature film productions

Yes No NA $

4.7 The same question as in 4.6, but specifically concerning public (institutional/ governmental) information film and audiovisual productions in the following categories (NUMBER AMOUNT US.$):

4.7.1 Public health

Yes No NA $

4.7.2 School television

Yes No NA $

4.7.3 Literacy campaigns

Yes No NA $

Part II: Professional organizations

5.1 Do filmmakers, directors and/or technicians benefit from a national legal status?

Yes No NA $

Which ? Please indicate

Title Since
Title Since
Title Since

5.2 Do national professional associations exist for filmmakers and other cinema-related professionals ?

Yes No NA $

Which ? Please indicate

Name Address
Name Address
Name Address

5.3 Please enclose a recent list of national professional associations

6. The production cycle

This part of the questionnaire mainly concerns audiovisual production such as cinema, video or digital imagery (such as CD-rom or DVD)

6.1 How many professionals are involved in the audiovisual sector (including all kinds of image support and related industries ) Please indicate the corresponding percentage for the following sub-sectors.
Total number of professionals employed in the

audiovisual %  (NA)
cinema %  (NA)
television %  (NA)
video %  (NA)

6.2 Please indicate the approximate number of companies offering services to the cinema and audiovisual sector in your country for each sub-group below. Please also give the approximate number of employees for each sub-group.

Film shooting (hiring equipment, camera, sound recording, lighting…)

6.2.1 Number of Cinematographic service companies Total number of employees
6.2.2 Number of Video or digital imagery companies Total number of employees

Processing, editing, image & sound (studios)

6.3 Please indicate the approximate number of companies providing cinematographic services

6.3.1 Number of cinematographic laboratories Number of employees
6.3.2 Number of Video studios Number of employees

6.4 Please indicate the total annual number of productions made in your country, mentioning the year referred to. These productions might comprise feature films, television productions or artistic creations and educational tools.

Year Number of film features Videos CD-rom/DVD

6.5 Please indicate the total turnover in US.$ for all productions made in your country.
(National production or co-production here indicates a professional project with local financing, a professional project with local financing, a national producer and processed in the country. An international production, on the other hand, is a project in which at least one participant or process comes from abroad).

6.5.1 Year Total costs for national productions in US $
Total costs for international co-productions in US $

6.5.2 What countries do the foreign participants, producers or investors represent ?
(Please start with the most important and continue in decreasing order)

1. 2. 3.

Distribution

7.1 Please indicate the number of feature films, videos or digital productions annually imported to be shown in film theatres, distributed through ‘video-shops’ or broadcast by (public or privately-owned) television channels.

Reference year Number of foreign productions

Countries of origin, in decreasing order

1. 2. 3.

7.2.1 How many national or foreign film distributors operate in your country? What is the number of film theatres, national (public or private-owned) television broadcasters, (earth stations - as opposed to satellite programmes) which operate in your country ?

Number of national distributors Number of foreign distributors
Reference year Number of film theatres (Cinema)
Number of video theatres Number of ‘video-shops’

7.2.2 Please indicate the total film theatre (seat) capacity ?

7.2.3 What is the potential viewing' audience for television ?

7.3.1 Please indicate the total number of entries (ticket sales) in theatres (both cinema and video) for the entire country ? Please also specify the total income from entrance ticket as well as the average price for one entry ticket ?

Year Audience number Income in $ Average ticket price in US $

7.3.2 Is it possible to mention a global trend for film theatre audiences ?
Increasing ?

YES NO (NA)

Decreasing ?

YES NO (NA)

Unchanged ?

YES NO (NA)

7.4 How many television channels operate from your national territory ?

Number NONE
How many channels are government-owned ? How many are private ?
How many channels have a national audience ? How many are local ?

8 What kind of national programmes are broadcast by these (public or private-owned) stations ?

8.1 Films

YES NO (NA)

8.2 Series (fiction)

YES NO (NA)

8.3 Documentaries

YES NO (NA)

8.4 Educational (school) programmes

YES NO (NA)

8.5 Advertising (promotional films/spots)

YES NO (NA)

8.6 How many hours are broadcast annually and what percentage of the total programming do the following productions represents?

8.6.1 National productions Hours Percentage %
8.6.2 International co-productions Hours Percentage %
8.6.3 Foreign productions Hours Percentage %

8.7 Are the foreign feature films broadcast on television, shown in theatres or distributed on cassette mainly translated (dubbed) ?

YES NO (NA)

or subtitled ?

YES NO (NA)

8.8 Please specify the approximate number of household video recorders (VCRs ) in your country ?

Number of video recorders Data for the year

8.9 Please give the number of households connected to parabolic (television) antennas

8.10 Please give an estimate of the number of households connected to the (earth-) cable television ?

Festivals

9.1 Please indicate the names and specialization's of the main national or local film festivals

Name Subject
Name Subject
Name Subject

9.2.1 How many national feature films have been presented at foreign film festivals during the last five years (since '94) ?

Number

9.2.2 Which foreign film festivals have presented films from your country ?

1. 2.
3. 4.

Part III: School training

10.1.1 Is an introduction to cinema included in the official school curricula?

10.1.2 At which age? Please indicate below

LESS THAN 10 YEARS BETWEEN 10 and 14 YEARS MORE THAN 14 YEARS (NA)

10.2 Professional training

10.2.1 In your country are there, specialized, secondary/technical or tertiary level, centres for cinema, television or audiovisual arts training/education ?

YES NO (NA)

10.2.2 Please give the main centres and their addresses.

NAME ADDRESS
NAME ADDRESS
NAME ADDRESS
NAME ADDRESS

10.3 Please indicate the total annual number of students (of cinema or audiovisual arts) in  your country ?

NA Number

10.4 Are any students from your country studying cinema or audiovisual production abroad ?

YES NO (NA) How many on a yearly basis  ?

10.5 If you have an up-to-date list of national training centres, please enclose it with this form

We would be grateful if you could ask your national authorities to send the different legal texts indicated at the beginning of this form. Your answers and these materials will form the basis of this comparative study. Thank you in advance for sending this questionnaire before 15August to the address indicated on the front page.
UNESCO, March 2000
Culture Sector
Division of Creativity, Books and Copyright