Many people prefer to watch foreign films rather than locally produced films. Why could this be? Should governments give more financial support to local film industries?

A usual trend in many different regions of the world is the huge popularity of foreign films, many being American and Indian made. The main cause of that problem is the

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lack of proper infrastructure in some countries. Yet it is really important for governments to start helping local cinema industries. In many countries, cultural programmes

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as museums, music or patrimony conservation are deemed too costly and a waste of public spending. In

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configuration, cinema is not a great counterexample. Out of all the entertainment media, it is the most expensive, which can explain why poor nations often do not have the infrastructure necessary for a proper movie studio.

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, the price of a quality camera can easily be in the thousands,

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a good lighting set. Even if some great films praised for their quality and mastery of the medium had limited budgets, the truth is that it is more of an exception than it is a commonality.

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causes a real hole in local filmmaking, explaining the attraction of foreign media For all those reasons, governments must invest in

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medium. Some may believe that because of the absence of infrastructure, there is an absence of talent, but they could not be more wrong. Public funding needs to be spent by the government for various reasons. For small nations, films have always been a way of showing themselves and their history to the world, like the African country of Burundi in the movie “Petit Pays”.

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, it does not even have to be a whole project that has to be paid for. It is entirely possible to simply open filming sets in scenic locations of a particular region.

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, Iceland managed to have various fantasy movies filmed in its territory with its unique landscape.

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, the reason why foreign production outshines local production is because of the low amount of structures in some parts. Local authorities should give more money to

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medium if they want their culture to be shown in the world.