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São Paulo’s Luiz Toledo Launches Filomena Productions to Accelerate Growth in the Global South Film-TV Industry (EXCLUSIVE)
The newly created consultancy addresses a key challenge. Connecting Brazil, Latin America and the global South to international markets.
Luiz Toledo, the formerly highly active director of investments and strategic partnerships at Spcine, the São Paulo Film Commission, has launched Filomena Productions, a private sector consultancy which aims to help supply missing links between burgeoning audiovisual hubs in Brazil, Latin America and the global South and established international markets. Distinguished by requesting affirmative action policies in funding bids, along with a strong first wave of global streamer investment from 2016’s “3%,” through this November’s mega production “ Senna,” the rebate has positioned Sao Paulo as not only the dominant but also most international-orientated of Brazil’s film-TV hubs. One objective is to facilitate co-productions: Connecting filmmakers and producers in emerging markets with partners in established film industries, Toledo told Variety.
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