Call Sheets & Shooting Schedules

A Brazilian call sheet is the day's working contract. It binds crews across Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, and the country's vast interior to a shared shoot day. Our production planning team builds each sheet to survive Brazil's huge geography and tropical weather windows.

Each sheet ships with the show's ANCINE CRT sign-ups. That backs Lei do Audiovisual Article 1A and 1B tax-credit reporting. We also list Receita Federal CNPJ references for the Aduana customs trail on imported gear. We have INSS input columns for each CLT-engaged crew member. FGTS termination-fund line entries and 13º salário accruals show per shoot day.

Here is how this works in practice. For shows staged out of Globo Estúdios in Jacarepaguá. TV Globo's flagship since 1965 and the world's largest telenovela engine — the sheet lists stage assignments. Cinedia, Casablanca São Paulo, O2 Filmes, and Gullane Filmes farther south follow the same format. We add SindCine and SATED-RJ or SATED-SP shop-steward contacts. Spcine or RioFilme commission line references sit beside the standard talent and crew columns.

We push revisions through a single source of truth. We sync with the first assistant director. We send the sheet via WhatsApp groups, since Brazilian crews already use those each day.

Brazil's land and weather force special care into each call sheet. The country spans four time zones. Summer carnival from February through March packs Rio and Salvador hotels. Amazon shoots ride a November to March river-rise window. Igapó flooded forest swaps with terra firme between weeks.

Our sheets show dawn and dusk windows tied to real sun position, not civil twilight. We add IBAMA and ICMBio ranger contact numbers for each conservation-unit entry. Shoots inside Terras Indígenas route through FUNAI for required permits. We log those windows on the sheet. This applies from Yanomami area in Roraima to the Xingu in Mato Grosso.

Here is the short of it. We list IPHAN custodian contacts for any heritage scene. That covers Ouro Preto, Olinda, Salvador's Pelourinho, and Brasília's Niemeyer civic axis. ANATEL frequency sets up sit beside ANAC and DECEA drone slot times. That matters for Cristo Redentor or Pão de Açúcar overflights.

Each wrap line ties to CLT late hours triggers. We post a 24/7 fixer-on-call number for last-minute Spcine or RioFilme calls. We also flag the Receita Federal advance-notice window for any same-day customs release.