Editing Northern Mariana Islands (section)

===Cinema===
{{Main|Cinema of Northern Mariana Islands}}
A small independent [[cinema of Northern Mariana Islands]], producing mostly documentary films, developed in the 21st century thanks to the efforts of the Commonwealth and of the [[Northern Marianas College]]. Foreign producers had already shot films on the islands in the 20th century.<ref name="Bill">{{cite act|type=Bill|date=2011|legislature=Seventeenth Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature|title=Commonwealth Film & Media Amendment Act of 2011|url=http://www.cnmileg.gov.mp/documents/house/hse_bills/17/HB17-157.pdf}}</ref>

In 2002, a new § 2151 of the Commonwealth Code established within the Marianas Visitors Authority (MVA), a Commonwealth Film, Video, and Media Office, also known as the Northern Mariana Islands Film Office, with the purpose of attracting foreign companies to produce movies in the Commonwealth and to develop a local cinema industry.<ref>{{cite act|type=Commonwealth Code|date=2002|article=2151|legislature=Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature|title=Commonwealth Film, Video and Media Office Established|url=https://www.cnmilaw.org/pdf/cmc_section/T4/2151.pdf}}</ref>