MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS SPECIAL EDITION – SPRING 2016: Latin America EDICIÓN ESPECIAL – PRIMAVERA 2016 : América Latina 193 Rio de Janeiro’s Movie Industry Cluster and its Sources of Growth João Luiz de Figueiredo, Rodrigo Carvalho ABSTRACT This paper describes the economic geography of the movie industry in Rio de Janeiro, emphasizing in particular how it has become materialized in the metropolitan area as a cluster of companies and skilled professionals, and has come to account for a significant proportion of national film production. The principal argument focuses on the interdependence between cultural industries and the metropolitan space, where agglomeration economies foster the concentration of firms and workers within these productive networks. The objective of the research is to discuss the development of the agglomeration of the movie industry in Rio de Janeiro, whose sources of growth are rooted in an economically productive creative territory in the metropolitan area. Thus, the main result from this research reveals that at the same time that cultural activities are responsible for the promotion of urban development, the metropolis is also crucial for the development of cultural activities. Therefore, the paper describes how public policies may serve not only the cultural sector but the metropolis as well. KEYWORDS Economic geography of the movie industry, movie industry cluster, economically productive creative territory, Rio de Janeiro João Luiz de Figueiredo is Coordinator of the Creative Economy Lab and Head of Entertainment Management at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM- Rio), Professor at the Department of Geography at Pontifícia Universidad Católica (PUC-Rio). Rodrigo Carvalho is Professor and Coordinator of the Creative Economy Lab at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM-Rio). 1. Introduction This paper describes the economic geography of the movie industry in Rio de Janeiro, emphasizing in particular how it has become materialized in the metropolitan area as a cluster of companies and skilled professionals, coming to account for a significant proportion of national film production. The principal argument focuses on the interdependence between cultural industries and the metropolitan space, where agglomeration economies foster the concentration of firms and workers within these productive networks.