Film in Creeperopolis
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Creeperian filmography originated in the 1890s with the spread in popularity of silent films. The 1894 silent film La'Mujer en Negro is considered to be the first Creeperian film to be produced by Televisa, one of the largest film production companies in Creeperopolis. Televisa holds a duopoly on the Creeperian film industry together with Univisión; both companies produce around 70 percent of the country's major film productions. Both companies produced the vast majority of Creeperian silent films until the early-1930s.
In the late-1920s, sound films, referred to as sonoros, began to be produced. The 1930 film Francisco el Méndez was the first Creeperian sound film produced. Many at the time believed that the 1930s would be a golden age for Creeperian cinema, but the Creeperian Civil War brought an abrupt end to the Creeperian film industry. Companies like Televisa and Univisión repurposed their studios to produce war propaganda to increase morale and spread both information and misinformation to the public. During the civil war, many silent and sound films were destroyed, either as a consequence of war or through intentional destruction. As a result, an estimated 95 percent of all Creeperian silent films and 60 percent of pre-civil war sound films are considered to be lost.
Following the civil war, the Creeperian government promoted the film industry and helped finance Televisa and Univisión begin producing non-propaganda entertainment films. Directors and actors during the 1950s and 1960s have been grouped together as members of the so-called golden era of Creeperian cinema. Popular filmmakers and actors from this era include José Rivera Campos, Francisco Gutiérrez Piñón, María Menéndez Luján, Sofía Ramírez Quijada, Enrique Payés Juárez, among others.
Films such as La'Crusada Santa (1972), Los'Muchachos en Blanco (1985), Calles Limpias (1997), and Adolfo III (2013) have been critically acclaimed as some of greatest Creeperian films ever made. The annual Creeperopolis Film Awards ceremony gives various accolades to films, actors, and directors which have been nominated by critics as being the best from the year prior.
