Brazil’s Elas Exportam: Fostering Film and Series Exports of Women-Led Companies

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s Elas Exportam training program aims to foster film and series exports of women-led companies by developing leadership skills. Organized by Brazil’s Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services (MDIC), the program is part of a broader government and industry effort to raise the presence of Brazilian productions abroad. Debora Ivanov, […]

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s Elas Exportam training program aims to foster film and series exports of women-led companies by developing leadership skills. Organized by Brazil’s Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services (MDIC), the program is part of a broader government and industry effort to raise the presence of Brazilian productions abroad. Debora Ivanov, […] The program, highlighted at RioMarket, is part of a government and industry effort to raise the presence of Brazilian productions abroad. The program, highlighted at RioMarket, was created by Brazil's government after a 2022 study showed that only 14.5% of exporting companies in Brazil had a majority of women among their shareholders RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s Elas Exportam training program aims to foster film and series exports of women-led companies by developing leadership skills.

Organized by Brazil’s Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services (MDIC), the program is part of a broader government and industry effort to raise the presence of Brazilian productions abroad. Debora Ivanov, a partner at Gullane Filmes and president of Instituto +Mulheres, Janaína Silva, director of MDIC’s Department of Export Promotion and Trade Facilitation, and lawyer Raquel Lemos, one of the program’s mentors, highlighted Elas Exportam on a panel at RioMarket, the business