CROATIA MADE ALMOST 800 FILMS IN PAST TEN YEARS

ZAGREB, Dec 30 (Hina) - In the past ten years a total of 756 films were made in Croatia. The most numerous of these are documentaries, 201, followed by expert films, 201, experimental, 91, short films, 77 and animated films, 72. The least numerous were movies with only 45 of them being filmed. In 2000 another five movies were made. According to data of the Croatian Cinema Archive, most films were made in 1995 (120) and the least in 1991 (51). From then and until 1995 the number of films grew and from 1995 since this number has steadily been falling, with the exception of 1997 when the number of documentaries increased. Movies were filmed the most in 1999 and in 1992 the least. This information is founded from Croatian film and video anniversaries from 1996 to 200 by editor Vjekoslav Majcen. These registered films by their showing at Croatian Film Days and the Croatian Film Festival in Pula. The information is reliable for movies, experimental and animated films, while that for others is not quite as reliable as they have no systematic way of registry. According to editor Majcen, the problem seems to be that Croatia does not have an established system of a reliable coverage of cinematography and there is no institution which would deal with gathering information about recent events in Croatian cinematography. The Croatian Cinema Archive, in charge of preserving Croatia's film heritage, covers this only partially by issuing a year manual, but results are incomplete due to insufficient personnel and finances. (hina) lml