it is a good time for producing and filming in brazil in general and in rio in particular, after the resurgence of brazilian cinema in the 1990s, film production has now been consolidated. the aesthetics of brazilian films has gained its place in world cinema with several major productions; every year brazil gets more than 20 lions at cannes and submits more than two thousand works.

one of the cities in brazil benefitting from this boom is rio. according to brazil's national cinema agency (ancine) there were over 80 foreign productions including movies, tv shows and commercials filmed in rio de janeiro in 2012.