A lot of films are multi-national co-productions, though. You also said in your blog that the films need to be "either made in the country of origin, produced in it or meaningfully financed by the country." You said "or," which means one of the three conditions would suffice. Well, Sony Pictures is a Japanese company that made the Spider Man and James Bond movies. Those can hardly be called "Japanese films," but according to your definition, they are. Movies are highly collaborative, so it's often hard to pinpoint the exact nationality. And even if a film is about a specific nation, culture, and people, directed and written by people from said nation and culture, but produced and funded by, say, Disney, then it would still seem to some people that the film wasn't made by said nation and people. But to yet another group of people, they were. And a debate would likely ensue. That has happened quite often, such as at the Oscars, where a non-English-language film was deemed not representative of a certain country due to some technicalities, thus disqualified for an Oscar. |