Scriptwriter Services

Here is how this works in practice. Brazilian screenwriting carries unusual prestige: Walter Salles won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in 2005 for The Motorcycle Diaries. City of God earned a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination in 2003 (one of its four nominations alongside Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography). Walter Salles's I'm Still Here landed a 2025 Best Foreign Language Oscar nomination with Fernanda Torres taking Best Actress Golden Globe and Oscar nomination. Central Station was a 1998 Berlin Golden Bear winner and Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee with Fernanda Montenegro Best Actress nominated.

Here is the layout. On the ground, the today's writers' bench runs through the Cinema Novo lineage (Glauber Rocha's Black God, White Devil 1964 onward), Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius 2016 Cannes, Bacurau 2019 Cannes Jury Prize), Karim Aïnouz, José Padilha (Elite Squad / Tropa de Elite 2 / Narcos), Anna Muylaert (Sundance 2015), Cao Hamburger (Year My Parents Went on Vacation Oscar nominee), Bruno Barreto, Andrucha Waddington, Daniela Thomas, and Marcelo Gomes.

Here is the short of it. On the working level we package writers, writer-directors, story editors, and writers' rooms for features, top television, telenovelas, documentary, branded content, and commercials. Globo's PROJAC-based telenovela writers' rooms (in steady output since 1965. The roster covers the world's largest telenovela operation) supply a uniquely deep bench in long-form serial storytelling. They staff Globoplay, Netflix LatAm, Amazon Prime LatAm, and HBO Max Brasil originals. Writers are SindCine-registered and represented under reciprocal WGA plan for US co-productions.

Here is how the work shapes up. On the ground, CLT contracts, FGTS 8% termination fund, INSS workers comp, 13º salário, and 30-day paid vacation are managed in-house. Receita Federal work sign-off is arranged for visiting overseas writers. We set up ANCINE Lei do Audiovisual rebates, Spcine and RioFilme development grants, and Brazil-Portugal lingua-Portuguesa, The country-Argentina Mercosul, and US co-production funding structures. Currency advantage BRL ~5:1 USD keeps development costs competitive while the Oscar/Cannes/Berlin/Sundance ceiling shows the upside.