RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Rio de Janeiro hosted a file 10,930 days of filming in 2025, a 24.6% expand from three hundred and sixty five days sooner than, Leonardo Edde, president director of RioFilme, offered on March 12 at some stage in the Fórum Audiovisual & Turismo – an event aimed against discussing how film and TV productions can promote Brazil’s tourism and trend.
Citing info from RioFilme’s Rio Movie Commission, Edde added Rio had in 2025 extra than 30 fashions working concurrently all year long, bearing in mind the production of films, series, TV reveals and commercials.
In conserving with Edde, Brazilian productions accounted for 95.5% of the taking pictures days in Rio in 2025, whereas foreign productions accounted for 4.5%. 28 worldwide productions shot in Rio last year.
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“The Brazilian production market is extremely stable, and that’s vast. But one among our major targets for this year is to appeal to extra foreign productions to shoot here in Rio,” Edde stated.
He added Rio is currently one among basically the most well-favored cities in the enviornment for filming. Rio passed Paris in 2023 by scheme of taking pictures days, and has narrowed the gap to Madrid, which hosted 11,001 taking pictures days in 2025.
The principle edition of the Audiovisual and Tourism Dialogue board became held in the Rio Art Museum (MAR) and became phase of a increased tourist sector event, TurisMall 2026. Sérgio Sá Leitão, Brazil’s worn Minister of Custom, and Steve Solot, worn senior VP for Latin The us of MPA, had been the event’s curators.
Solot stressed out in his keynote speech at the Dialogue board that movies are extra effective than selling in selling a tourist vacation place of abode, because they attain extra other folks, have a long live and win emotional hyperlinks with viewers.
“Audiovisual feeds tourism, tourism feeds audiovisual. Together, these two sectors generate a limiteless amount of revenues and jobs. We’ve upright examples of cities in Brazil that use film and TV productions to promote themselves as tourist vacation place of abode, but there’s peaceful a form of room for enchancment,” Leitão stated.
