DJCTQ

The DJCTQ, or Department of Justice, Rating, Titles and Qualification (Departamento de Justiça, Classificação, Títulos e Qualificação in Portuguese) rates movies, games and television programs in Brazil. It is controlled by the Ministry of Justice (Ministério da Justiça).

Movies and TV programs

The DJCTQ uses the following system:

• Livre (General): This film/TV show contains no objectionable content and can be viewed by anyone, regardless of age.
• 10 anos (10 years): This film and/or TV program is recommended for persons over 10 years of age. May contain a little inappropriate language, sexual innuendo, or mild violence.
• 12 anos (12 years): This film and/or TV program is recommended for persons over 12 years of age. May contain a mild inappropriate language, mild sexual innuendo, or mild violence.
• 14 anos (14 years): This film and/or TV program is recommended for persons over 14 years of age. May contain moderate inappropriate language, moderate sexual innuendo, mild sexual content, or brief allusions to drug abuse.
• 16 anos (16 years): This film and/or TV program is recommended for persons over 16 years of age. May contain strong language, sexual innuendo and/or mild sex with or without mild nudity, strong violence, or moderate scenes of or allusions to drug abuse.
• 18 anos (18 years): This film and/or TV program is forbidden for people under 18 years of age. It may contain strong language, explicit sexual content, frequent nudity, strong violence, or explicit scenes of drug abuse. This rating is also used for pornographic movies and television shows.

People under the minimum age indicated by the rating can watch the movie and/or TV program accompanied by their parents, except for pornographic films and TV programs. The films and TV programs are rated by trained raters and more recently, the DJCTQ makes surveys to see if the people agree or not with the rating indicated for a specific film and/or TV program. No "parental guidance" ratings are used.

Games

Games are rated in Brazil by the DJCTQ since October 2002. The growing game market in Brazil needed a bigger control over the countless games sold in the country every day. It was introduced by Senator José Gregori.

The American system that was being used by some Brazilian distributors, from ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board), wasn't adopted for the Brazilian culture and kept the ratings in English, being not appropriate for the Portuguese language and leaving most consumers uninformed.

Between October 2002 and September 2004, the DJCTQ analyzed and rated over 2,100 electronic games for both console and computer.

The game rating system looks like just the same from the movie and/or TV program rating system, except for the ER rating not being there:

• Livre (general)
• 10 anos (10 years)
• 12 anos (12 years)
• 14 anos (14 years)
• 16 anos (16 years)
• 18 anos (18 years)

Content descriptors are also used, similar to ESRB system. Games are rated by trained raters, and the main topics analyzed by the DJCTQ are sex, violence and drugs. All games released in Brazil are subject to being rated.

A database is available for those who want to search for the rating for a specific game or movie and/or TV program in the Internet.

External links

• DJCTQ page; rated movies and games database (in Portuguese)