History
Until the Civil War
After the arrival to Galicia of the first film projectors, there were some pioneers that carried out filmings. It is the case of authors as Xosé Gil ('' Miss Ledyia'', 1916) or José Signo (''La tragedia de Xirobio'', 1930). In those years also Spanish films set in the Galicia as ''La Casa de la Troya'' are filmed and also works of foreign directors as '' Carmiña, flower of Galicia'' carried out by the Italian Rino Lupo although the interiors were carried out inCivil War – 1975
There are documentaries of the emigration and of the exile (rescued some of them at the end of the 20th century). The more distinguished figure is Carlos Velo (1909–1988). Before being exiled during the1975 – present
The importance of the fiction in television can be noticed by the economic development that some of the companies of production acquire through series. Unfortunately the economic strength does not mean that the production reflects a line of creation towards a cinema (or in this audio-visual case) characteristic of Galicia, stereotyped products, which they escape of any type of incorrect aspect, take place frequently -as it happens in most of the commercial televisions of the world-, and they follow an interchangeable model to any place of the world. Among the films done in Galicia it is remarkable for the quantity of people that it saw '' O bosque animado'' of 2001 (Dygra Films), according to data of the ICAA it was seen by 509.132 spectators (05/10/2004). Several other animated films have been produced in the region. '' The Blind Sunflowers'' was filmed in Ourense. '' Lost in Galicia'' also features the region. {{World cinema Galician culture