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Cindy Sampson
Cindy Sampson (Cindy Marie Sampson, born 1978) is a Canadian actress from Halifax, Nova Scotia, known for Lisa Braeden on Supernatural and PI Angie Everett in Private Eyes and its 2026 spinoff Private Eyes West Coast.
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman (born 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American photographer of the Pictures Generation, known for Untitled Film Stills (1977–80), staged self-transformations that are not self-portraits, and the new Fabric Matrons series.
Cindy Starfall
Cindy Starfall (born 1989, Ho Chi Minh City) is a Vietnamese-American adult film actress and glamour model, active 2012-2023, an AVN Best New Starlet nominee and 2020 Urban X Hall of Fame inductee.
Cindy Vela
Cindy Vela (born 1979, Brownsville, Texas) is an American actress, model, and alto saxophonist, distinct from the My 600-Lb Life participant of the same name. Known for Desdemona: A Love Story, Run Hide Fight (2020), and Oak (2024); UT Brownsville music education graduate.
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams (Cynthia Jane Williams, 1947-2023), American actress known as Shirley Feeney on Laverne & Shirley and Laurie Henderson in American Graffiti; died January 25, 2023, aged 75.
Cindy Williams (EastEnders)
Cindy Williams Jr, daughter of Cindy Beale and Nick Holland, is an EastEnders character born in prison in 1998, played by four actresses including Mimi Keene, appearing in 126 episodes until 2015 before leaving for Germany with Liam Butcher.
Cindy Wilson
Cindy Wilson (Cynthia Leigh Wilson, born 1957, Athens, Georgia) is a founding vocalist of the B-52s, known for her contralto leads on "Give Me Back My Man" and "Love Shack" call-and-response, her 1990–1994 hiatus, and solo albums Change (2017) and Realms (2023).
Cinecittà
Cinecittà (Cinecittà Studios), Rome's Via Tuscolana film studio complex founded by Mussolini and opened in 1937; Italy's largest studios, 'Hollywood on the Tiber', now state-managed by Cinecittà S.p.A. and expanding to 25 stages by 2026.
Cinema Bandi
Cinema Bandi (సినిమా బండి) is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language comedy drama film directed by Praveen Kandregula in his debut and produced by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K.
Cinema City
Cinema City names several subjects: a Grade I listed three-screen Picturehouse cinema in Norwich (Suckling House and Stuart Hall); the Cinema City International cinema chain founded 1930 in Haifa; and a Tbilisi residential project around a 1930 film-studio pavilion.
Cinema of Bangladesh
Cinema of Bangladesh (Dhallywood): Bengali-language film industry centered in Dhaka. Begins with Mukh o Mukhosh (1956) and the 1957 EPFDC/BFDC; marked by Eid-driven box office, the 2023 Film Certification Act, a shrinking hall base, and 2025 hits like Borbaad.
Cinema of France
Cinema of France (French cinema, le cinéma français): national film industry born with the Lumière brothers in 1895, funded by the CNC's 10.72% ticket levy, with 181.5 million 2024 admissions and a 44.8% French market share.
Cinema of Germany
Cinema of Germany: national film tradition from the Skladanowsky brothers' 1895 Berlin screenings through Weimar Expressionism, Nazi-controlled Ufa, the New German Cinema, and today's FFA/DFFF-subsidized industry with the Berlinale festival and roughly 220 features a year.
Cinema of Hong Kong
Cinema of Hong Kong: the territory's film industry, begun in 1913 with Brodsky's Variety Film companies, dominated by Cantonese and Mandarin production, wuxia and kung fu genres, the 1979 New Wave, a 1980s-1990s golden age, and later decline and mainland co-production.
Cinema of India
Cinema of India, also known as Indian cinema, is the world's largest film industry by output, producing about 1,800 to 2,000 films a year in more than twenty languages.
Cinema of Italy
Cinema of Italy: the national film industry from early silent epics like Cabiria, Fascist-era Cinecittà, neorealism and 1960s-70s genres, to today's state-supported sector; 2025 box office 496.5M euros, Italian share 32.7%.
Cinema of Japan
Cinema of Japan (日本映画, nihon eiga), the Japanese film industry: studio era with Toho, Shochiku, Toei, Daiei, Nikkatsu; two Showa golden ages; today a production committee financing model alongside an independent sector of about 90% of releases.
Cinema of Nigeria
Cinema of Nigeria, known internationally as Nollywood, spans from the 1903 Lagos debut to today's second-largest film industry by output, over 2,500 films a year, low budgets, piracy, 68 cinemas, and 2025 Cannes recognition.
Cinema of Pakistan
Cinema of Pakistan, or Lollywood, is the Urdu- and regional-language film industry centered in Lahore and Karachi since 1948. It peaked at 111 films in 1975, declined under Zia-era Islamization, and revived partially after 2000.
Cinema of Poland
Cinema of Poland: national film tradition from 19th-century beginnings and 'iluzjon' era through the Polish Film School (Wajda, Munk, Kanał), Cinema of Moral Concern, censorship, Ida's 2015 Oscar, and today's 534 cinemas.
Cinema of South India
Cinema of South India covers the Telugu (Tollywood), Tamil (Kollywood), Kannada, and Malayalam film industries, historically centered in Madras, now known for pan-Indian blockbusters like Baahubali, KGF, RRR, and Pushpa.
Cinema of the Philippines
Cinema of the Philippines: national film tradition from the 1897 Manila screening and Dalagang Bukid (1919) through the 1950s Big Four studios, the martial-law Second Golden Age, and today's festival-driven digital indie scene.
Cinema of the Soviet Union
Cinema of the Soviet Union: the state-run film industry of the USSR, 1917-1991, also called Soviet cinema. Nationalized by Lenin in 1919; known for 1920s montage (Eisenstein, Vertov), Socialist Realism, Goskino control, and perestroika-era reform.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
Cinema of the United Kingdom: Britain's national film industry, from early London studios and the 1927 Films Act to today's £6.8 billion production sector, Hollywood dominance, BFI funding, and BAFTA awards.
Cinema of the United States
Cinema of the United States (Hollywood): the American film industry, from Edison's 1893 kinetoscope and the 1910s move to Los Angeles through the studio oligopoly to today's $8.6 billion domestic box office, production offshoring, and Library of Congress preservation.
Cinema of West Bengal
Cinema of West Bengal (Tollywood, based in Tollygunge, Kolkata): Bengali-language film industry dating to Hiralal Sen's 1898 films, first talkie Dena Paona (1931), New Theatres, Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955), and a 2025 prime-time screening mandate.
Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) is Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 Italian-French drama about a Sicilian boy and the projectionist Alfredo. It won the 1989 Cannes Grand Prize and the 1990 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, with an Ennio Morricone score.
Cinéma vérité
Cinéma vérité (cinéma direct) is a participatory documentary style from around 1960, coined by Rouch and Morin after Vertov's kinopravda, using light 16mm cameras and sync sound; distinct from Drew Associates' observational direct cinema.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus) is Marcelo Gomes's 2005 Brazilian debut feature, a road movie set in 1942 in the northeastern sertão, where a German aspirin salesman and a drought refugee screen films to sell medicine; it won prizes at Cannes and the São Paulo Mostra.
CineMAA Awards
The CineMAA Awards, also written Cine Maa Awards, are Telugu cinema awards presented in Hyderabad and associated with MAA TV, first held in 2003, with winners chosen by public voting and an expert committee.