had the choice of films produced by Italian and French directors. Over time, however, and despite occasional shows by the French Institute, Hollywood cinema has gradually taken over Haitian movie screens. Throughout the Duvalier regime, strict surveillance was exercised over films, lest they convey revolutionary ideas. For example, Luis Buñuel's La fièvre monte à El Pao (Fever mounts in El Pao) was quickly removed from cinemas. At that time, westerns and films inspired by Chinese martial arts were the most frequent choices available to the public. In the 1980s, the Maxence Elisée group appeared in the Haitian film market. This corporation has allowed the Caribbean Haitian public access to popular films made in France and French versions of American films. Today, this group (now Leisure Ltd) dominates the distribution and exhibition of cinema and Haiti has the most theaters in the country, including the three largest, the Imperial (5 screens), the Capitol (4 screens), the Rex Theater and the Paramount. Haitian films Local films During the Duvalier dictatorship, there was little film production within the country. This was largely caused by the country's extreme poverty and the technological and financial constraints of film production. In the 28 years of the Duvalier dictatorship, only four films were produced. The first was the 1976 short film Map paly net by Raphael Stines, a Creole version of Jean Cocteau's Le bel indifférent. The second was Olivia, a 1977 feature film by Bob Lemoine. The third was Rasul Labuchin's 1980 film Anita, which was very successful thanks to the short-lived "Ciné-Club" Point-de-Vue (Point of View). Olivia was shot on 35mm film, and the other two on 16mm. In 1980 the first Creole-language feature film "A la mise pou Rodrig" was released nationwide featuring singer Rodrigue Milien, written, directed and produced by Claude L.C. Mancuso: shot on 16mm and blown up to 35 millimeters. Many films have been made now since the fall of Duvalier, many of them by Haitian filmmaker Arnold Antonin. Militant film and film of the diaspora In the diaspora, there is a forceful cinema of denunciation and struggle against the dictatorship. Arnold Antonin is known for his documentary films, including Les Duvalier sur le banc des accusés (1973, 25mm, black and white) and Haïti le chemin de la liberté (1974, 120 mm, feature, black and white). The latter film, sponsored by the magazine Les Cahiers du Cinéma, elevated Haitian film to