FROM EMERGENCY TO PERMANENCE? AN ANALYSIS OF THE FUNDING OF AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION IN RIO GRANDE DO NORTE IN THE POST-PANDEMIC PERIOD (2020-2025)
Audiovisual. Culture. Grants. PNAB. Rio Grande do Norte.
The research aims to analyze the recent process of granting funding for cultural production in Brazil and its impact on film and audiovisual production in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, taking as a time frame the block of emergency cultural support policies established in the country during the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences. These policies are: the Aldir Blanc Law (Law No. 14.017/2020), the Paulo Gustavo Emergency Cultural Law (Complementary Law No. 195/2022) and the National Policy for Cultural Promotion (PNAB, Law No. 14.399/2022), the latter implemented in two successive investment cycles in all states of the Federation, encompassing all cultural languages. Based on the theoretical framework from the fields of Sociology of Culture, Law, and Public Policy, this study develops its analysis through the question: does the process of transition from the emergence to the permanence of cultural grants effectively constitute a structural rupture in the production chain of independent local audiovisual media, or does it merely represent the ultra-bureaucratic institutionalization of a chronic dependence of the sector on other existing funding sources? For this analysis, a qualitative approach will be adopted, using documentary analysis of data collected from cultural management bodies in the state of Rio Grande do Norte.