Editorial - 39ª Mostra

Editorial SABESP

The Basic Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo (Sabesp) is the biggest sanitation company in Latin America and one of the five biggest in the world. It benefits roughly 28 million people. With the belief that culture plays a fundamental role in the development of every citizen, Sabesp has been directing resources from tax incentives to cultural and sports events, which are aligned with the principles of social and environmental responsibility, the incentive to culture and the well-being of the community.

This movement results in the sponsorship to several projects in the areas of literature, visual arts, music, circus, dance, preservation of cultural heritage and theater. It has also transformed the company into the organization that most invests in cinema in the state of São Paulo, and one of the three largest providers to the medium in the entire country. Since 2004, when the company joined the Fomento ao Cinema Paulista program, more than 160 films received support though the Audiovisual Law. Sabesp was also one of the pioneers in the incentive for the production of films with subtitles and audio descriptions, adapted for people with visual and hearing disabilities.

The support to Mostra, for the tenth consecutive year, is part of a policy of the government of the state of São Paulo to not only value, but also encourage cinema in its full cycle: from production to the circulation of films, collaborating as well with the creation of new screening spaces and, consequently, to the formation of audiences in the most different regions of the state. In this context, as a counterpart offered to the support, a special itinerancy will happen outside of the state’s capital, in the city of Campos do Jordão.

Among the diverse ways of practicing social and environmental responsibility, Sabesp believes in respect for life in its varied necessities —such as culture and its many different forms of expression.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA