Ramping up the drive into censorship in Brazil, its Minister of Citizenship, Omar Terra, has suspended a call for applications for governmental TV funding – until new criteria are established for its application.
The country’s secretary for culture, Henrique Pires, who reports to Terra, has resigned in protest of the incentive freeze.
The suspension, for a period of 180 days, has been applied to a call for TV projects, originally issued on March 13 by the Far South Regional Development Bank (Brde) with the participation of the National Film Agency (Ancine), Brazilian’s biggest source of state finance for film and TV.
The moneys would have been distributed by Brazil’s Audiovisual Sectorial Fund (Fsa), which has voluntarily halted immediate pay-outs as it revises its accounting procedures. In total, 70m reais, ($17 million) were due to be adjudicated by the agency.
According to a governmental ordinance published Wednesday, the administration plans to restructure...
The country’s secretary for culture, Henrique Pires, who reports to Terra, has resigned in protest of the incentive freeze.
The suspension, for a period of 180 days, has been applied to a call for TV projects, originally issued on March 13 by the Far South Regional Development Bank (Brde) with the participation of the National Film Agency (Ancine), Brazilian’s biggest source of state finance for film and TV.
The moneys would have been distributed by Brazil’s Audiovisual Sectorial Fund (Fsa), which has voluntarily halted immediate pay-outs as it revises its accounting procedures. In total, 70m reais, ($17 million) were due to be adjudicated by the agency.
According to a governmental ordinance published Wednesday, the administration plans to restructure...
- 8/21/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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