Brazil · Open market · Operating partnership
Official since 2002. Ordered into every cinema in 2016.
Access on this page: Signed: Língua Brasileira de Sinais — pending How this page is tested
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Signed end to end by a Deaf creator, credited by name. International Sign on the global site; your national sign language on your country page.
Brazil recognised Libras by federal law in 2002 — Lei 10.436 — and regulated it in 2005. In 2016 the film agency's Instrução Normativa 128 ordered every commercial cinema to offer audio description, captions and Libras; since January 2023 distributors must hand cinemas an accessible copy.
The deadline was postponed, and postponed again — not for lack of will, for lack of a solution that worked in a dark room full of hearing people.
We built that solution.
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The promise
No country promised more.
Brazil's sign language is Libras — the only sign language on earth a whole country made official by national law. The legal foundations here are decades ahead of almost every market we study. The delivery is not.
~10 million Brazilians live with hearing loss; millions use Libras as their language. Seeds: IBGE census data.
Millions more are blind or low-vision — the same cinema seat, the other undelivered promise: audio description. Seed: IBGE / national health survey.
2002 · 2015 · 2016 Libras made official · the Inclusion Law adds penalties · ANCINE's IN 128 mandates cinema accessibility nationwide. The paper trail is world-class. Seeds: Law 10.436/2002; LBI 13.146/2015; ANCINE IN 128/2016.
Why captions alone don't keep the promise → Why Sign Language
The wait
Postponed — for lack of a solution.
- 2002 — Libras becomes an official language of Brazil.
- 2015 — The Brazilian Inclusion Law: accessibility with penalties.
- 2016 — ANCINE orders every commercial cinema to provide audio description, captions, and Libras.
- 2018 → — Implementation deadlines postponed, repeatedly, while exhibitors and the agency searched for equipment that actually worked at scale.
Brazil wrote the promise decades ago.
The delivery never arrived.
The delivery, built
We've seen the third act.
Our patent-pending cinema technology is the shape of Brazil's missing piece: a moviegoer puts on augmented reality and the film arrives with synchronized sign language, captions, or audio description — while the screen, and every other seat, stays untouched.
Around it, a working model: in the Philippines, city councils are writing accessibility into local law with ally at the table — a cinema-access ordinance is past first reading. Deaf creators are paid to produce sign language, captions, and audio description on our platform. Deaf residents of Bohol have been trialing the service in their own province, and in Singapore we ran trials with the Lighthouse and the Singapore Association for the Deaf.
And the football club that selected us from 800+ applicants (under 1%) for an early-phase Foundation integration? Real Madrid. Brazil — forgive us. Then call us.
Your market
Now imagine the deadline finally met.
A São Paulo multiplex where a Deaf family just buys tickets.
A Libras track on the stream — made by Deaf Brazilians, paid for their work.
IN 128 compliance that exhibitors stop dreading — because it finally has a solution.
One federal mandate covers 26 states, the Federal District, and thousands of screens. And every sign language is a market someone organizes first — Libras is the only one a whole country made official, and it is still unorganized. Whoever organizes it, keeps it.
The builder
This story needs its Brazilian builder.
We bring
- The platform, the API, and the creator playbook
- The compliance-to-comprehension playbook, proven city by city
- The brand, training, and the patent-pending cinema line
You bring
- Standing in Brazil — exhibition, broadcast, government, or the Deaf community
- Operating capacity and relationships
- Market investment, and the ambition to deliver a 24-year-old promise
A licensed market operation, built with the local community — terms discussed directly. Deaf-led organizations and entrepreneurs are explicitly welcome: the community that won Libras its legal status may be exactly who should deliver it.
More ways in
Sponsor the access
A brand underwrites screenings, creator content, or a service line — and speaks Libras to Brazil before its competitors do.
Distribute & integrate
Exhibitors under IN 128, streamers, and broadcasters carry the access to their own audiences through one API — with or without a market partner in place.
Host the first
A state, a city, or a cinema chain stages Brazil's first fully accessible screening day — the deadline finally met, in public.
Invest
Back the Brazilian operation alongside an operator — or introduce us to the one who should run it. Investors
Next step
The law made a promise. It's been waiting eight years. That is the business.
Write to us — form, email, or a signed or spoken video message. The process: intro call → NDA → the Brazil market dossier → terms.
Contact us about Brazil Download the one-page Brazil brief
- Are you operating in Brazil today?
- Not yet. That is the point of this page.
- What does a partnership include?
- The platform, the playbook, the brand, and our team beside yours — under a licensed market structure whose terms we discuss directly.
- We're an exhibitor or platform under IN 128 — can you serve us directly?
- Yes — that is the Cinema and Platform pages. Compliance doesn't wait for a market partner.