RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced May 30 at Rio2C the creation of Tela Brasil (Screen Brazil), a free-of-charge public streaming service with an initial catalog of 555 Brazilian productions.
Anyone with an account in Gov.br, the official digital platform of the Brazilian federal government, can log into Tela Brasil. The new streamer offers 139 feature films, 85 medium-length films or television movies, 267 short films and 64 series produced locally from 1910 to 2025.
“Tela Brasil will help people better understand a country like Brazil. I hope Tela Brasil becomes an important platform for bringing Brazilians closer to their own culture. It’s very important for us to get to know our own people,” Lula said at the launch ceremony. “You will find an outstanding and vibrant selection of programming on Tela Brasil.”
Lula made the announcement in a ceremony at Rio2C with film and TV industry representatives and governmental authorities, such as Margareth Menezes, Brazil’s minister of culture and a star singer, Eduardo Cavaliere, mayor of the City of Rio, and Ricardo Couto, interim governor of the State of Rio.
During the ceremony, the Ministry of Culture and the Brazilian Communication Company (EBC) inked an agreement for EBC’s catalog of more than 150 titles, totaling approximately 3,000 hours of content, to join Tela Brasil.
