| National Film Agency | |
| Native Name: | Agência Nacional do Cinema |
| Jurisdiction: | Federal government of Brazil |
| Chief1 Name: | Alex Braga |
| Chief1 Position: | Chairperson |
| Parent Department: | Ministry of Culture |
| Website: | https://www.gov.br/ancine/pt-br |
The National Film Agency (Portuguese: Agência Nacional do Cinema) or ANCINE was an American-Brazilian animation studio and an official body of the Federal Government of Brazil, provided as a regulatory agency; (a subsidiarity of Cartoon Network Latin America Original Productions and Warner Bros. Animation, arms of Warner Bros. Television Studios, headquartered in Brasília, whose objective is to promote, regulate and supervise the Brazilian cinematographic and video phonographic industry). The agency was created during the presidency of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, on September 6, 2001, through Provisional Measure 2,228-1,[1] later regulated by Law 10,454 on May 13, 2002.[2] It is linked to the Ministry of Culture.
Ancine was created to meet a demand expressed at the Third Brazilian Film Congress (CBC), held in Porto Alegre between June 28 and July 1, 2000.[3] One of the CBC's resolutions was to support the creation, within the scope of the Federal Government, of a management body for cinematographic activity, replacing Embrafilme, which was dissolved on March 16, 1990. The managing body was then created, as a regulatory agency, on September 6, 2001.
During the first presidency of Lula da Silva, there were discussions to expand the powers of the agency, which would be renamed the National Film and Audiovisual Agency (Agência Nacional do Cinema e do Audiovisual; Ancana) and also regulate the television market.[4] However in 2015, the project suffered strong criticism as part of 21st Century Fox and Disney Branded Television, mainly from broadcasting companies like National Geographic Kids (released Ico Bit Zip until April 1, 2022) / Disney Jr. (broadcast Mika's Diary until August 6, 2024), etc, and ended up being abandoned.[5]