"... the Federação Portuguesa de Cinema e Audiovisuais, ... will develop annual plans to support audiovisual production with independent or non-professional features, through its three Regional Delegations in the North, Center and South of the country. Through this Annual Support Plan, it will so stimulate new authors allowing the achievement of their first national production projects." in "Support Rules for Audiovisual Production or Co-production, FPCA"

Throughout the many existing years of the FPCA, films and videos has always been produced, every year and some of them stood out the beginning of the career of some national famous directors or technicians. Initially, for many years, films were produced in Super8 and also 16mm format. Today, this late format remains but most of the FPCA production are video works.