ABSTRACT
Supra-national cooperation has become one of the main tools for expanding audiovisual policies abroad. The supra-national policy can play a central role in the creation of a common audiovisual space. This is the case of the Ibermedia programme. It works in Ibero-America under the supervision of the Ibero-American General Secretariat, which gathers nineteen Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America and those of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain, Portugal and Andorra. The chapter presents the implementation of the Ibermedia programme over a period of seventeen years. It analyses its evolution and its main instruments. The chapter focuses on the dynamics on both sides of the Atlantic: the European, with the Spanish leadership, and the Latin American, with Argentina and Brazil as regional leaders. Finally, it compares Ibermedia with other international audiovisual programmes implemented in the region. In the Ibero-American space, audiovisual producers can also apply for other different international funding programmes for audiovisual co-productions.
