Cinema of Malta
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The film industry of Malta consists primarily of location shooting for larger foreign productions. The Maltese landscape has portrayed several regions of the world, and the Maltese government provides incentives for foreign productions to operate in Malta. The prevalence of location shooting in the country has created a large film tourism industry. Malta has also had a limited number of local productions of Maltese films.
As a microstate, few local productions have taken place in Malta. Gaġġa was the first film to be produced from an entirely Maltese script, produced as a student film in 1971 and released in 2007 due to its cultural significance.[citation needed] In 2014, Simshar became the feature length Maltese film distributed to an international audience.[1] Simshar was selected to represent Maltese cinema in the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.[2] Since then, other internationally distributed feature films, such as The Boat, have been produced in Malta.[1] Carmen, a Canadian/Maltese co-production, won the award for best feature film in the 2022 Canadian Film Festival.[3]
