Thursday, February 21, 2008

Making movies with Germany

On February, 20th, it was ratified and enacted in Brazil a treaty that creates special conditions to make feasible the partnership with Germany to produce movies.

Some agreed clauses are:

1) A movie made by both German and Brazilian companies will have the same benefits that a national movie would have in each home country;

2) Before start shooting, the projects must be approved by each countries' authorities.

3) It is possible to allow other countries to participate.

To read the text in Portuguese (Decree 6.375), click here.