RioFilme, the film-TV agency of Rio de Janeiro City, will launch a call for proposals amounting to R$15 million ($3 million) for up to four international co-production projects involving Rio-based companies.
Leonardo Edde, president of RioFilme, told Variety that projects of fiction and animated feature films are eligible to apply and that he will provide details of the new funding line during his Gramado Film Market panel at the Gramado Fest 2026.
In order to apply, a project must abide by Brazilian regulations. If the co-production partner of the Rio-based company is from one of the 13 countries that has coproduction agreements with Brazil – South Africa, Germany, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Spain, France, India, Israel, Italy, Portugal, the UK and Venezuela – the co-production conditions must be within the agreements’ rules.
If not, the Rio partner must share of at least 40 of the film’s rights and two-thirds of the artists and technicians in the production should be Brazilians, as determined in the general co-production rules of Brazil’s National Cinema Agency (Ancine).
Edde said the new funding line is just part of an ambitious plan to further consolidate Rio as a major world film and TV production hub. Over the past years, Rio has streamlined its film commission and created incentives that made it one of the most filmed cities in the world, surpassing Paris and Mexico City in terms of days shot in the city. In the first half of 2026, Rio hosted 40 international productions, up from 28 in the same period last year, according to Rio Filme.
