Founded in 1987 by Walter Salles and his brother, the documentary filmmaker João Moreira Salles, VideoFilmes is a production company specializing in making documentaries and feature films.

This year, most of the feature films are by first-time directors: Madame Satã by Karim Aïnouz, who is one of the writers of Behind the Sun; Cidade de Deus co-directed by Kátia Lund, who was assistant director on Central Station, and Fernando Mereilles; At the Edge of the Earth (Onde a Terra Acaba), a documentary by Sérgio Machado, assistant director and co-writer of Behind the Sun. In addition, VideoFilmes has had the privilege of producing the most recent documentaries made by directors Nelson Pereira dos Santos, The Masters and the Slaves (Casa Grande e Senzala) and Eduardo Coutinho, Babilônia 2000.

In 1998 VideoFilmes produced Central Station and Midnight/The First Day, this last co-directed by Daniela Thomas and Walter Salles. For its documentaries and feature films, VideoFilmes has already received more than 100 international awards.

VideoFilmes also provides support to new documentarists. Every six month, three projects are selected and VideoFilmes lends them a camera, post-production equipment, as well as giving them technical support. The only condition is that the candidates are actually at the beginning of their career or, in other words, that they have had no film commercially exhibited.