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Colombian Content Producers Under Siege (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Anna Marie de la Fuente Colombia’s entertainment industry is up in arms over a government decree which has reduced the 70% national production quota for primetime TV to 20% due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Its beleaguered producers, actors, screenwriters, crew members and ancillary services will face even greater challenges if demand for homegrown productions begin to fall.

Independent producers org Asocinde, led by CMO producer-VP Ana Piñeres, sent an appeal to the government while actors guild ACA has sued against the decree.

Some suspect that the TV sector pressured the government to pass this ruling so that they could fill their programming with less expensive canned imports.

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