Brazilian audiovisual policies

A way to think about the power of multicentrality in contemporary audiovisual creation and production

Abstract

This article offers a historiographical overview that points to a small quantitative and qualitative increase (and its subsequent retention) in the social and regional scope of federal audiovisual sectoral Brazilian public policies, articulated with actions at the state and municipal levels, as well as with organized civil society, within a time frame between 1993 and 2019. Aiming to highlight the positive impact of continuity on the development, improvement, and application of these sectoral policies, this article examines studies that discuss the culturalist, distributive, universalist, and concentrationist aspects of audiovisual activity over the years. In this process, it observes that regionalization drivers were only introduced into federal programs, funding lines, and calls for proposals by teams of sectoral public policy formulators who began working in the early of 21st century. Finally, the article outlines a relationship between the adoption of these more distributive sectoral policies and the emergence, in the second decade of the 21st century, of new relational dramaturgical cinematic poetics that are multicentric, popular, and non-massified, outside the traditional locations and social segments that concentrate audiovisual production in Brazil.