This article analyzes the regulation, overseeing and support policies for the audiovisual industry in Brazil, since the creation of the National Film Agency (Ancine). From the perspective of the recent changes in the institutional apparatus of the Brazilian state, the article studies the specificity of a regulatory agency created for this public policy sector. It analyzes the historical background of the relationship between state and film industry in Brazil, as well as the concrete results and strategical meaning of the agency's actions, and compares regulatory institution models in other selected countries: Argentina, Mexico, France and UK. It also discusses the debate on the agency's change of profile and scope, with its possible substitution by The National Film and Audiovisual Agency and the controversy this proposal raised in the cultural and film community. Finally, the article interprets what constitutes, in this Brazilian experience, the institutional apparatus that it calls 'sectorial public policy articulation agency'.
State reform; regulatory agency; public policies; culture; audio-visual industry; film industry
