Prime Video and RTP Acquire Portuguese Rights to True-Crime Series 'Gisberta'
Prime Video and Portugal's public broadcaster RTP have acquired the Portuguese rights to Gisberta – Life and Death of a Trans Woman, a four-part true-crime docuseries. Variety reported the deal on 12 November 2026.
The two broadcasters will share the series by splitting how it reaches viewers. Prime Video holds the subscription video-on-demand rights in Portugal, which means people watch through a paid streaming account. RTP holds the free-to-air rights, so anyone with a television can watch on the channel at no cost. RTP also holds the rights to stream the series free with advertising, a model known as AVOD.
The docuseries revisits the 2006 murder of Gisberta Salce Júnior, a Brazilian transgender woman killed in Porto. According to the report, she was tortured by 14 minors from the Oficina de São José, a Catholic-run institution, before she was killed. The series is told in four episodes of 45 minutes each.
The production is in post-production at Volf Entertainment, a Lisbon company. Post-production is the stage where footage is edited, sound is mixed and the final picture is finished. Volf is making the series with Ultravioleta, a company based in Brazil. Brazilian filmmaker Rodrigo Rebouças created the project and co-directs it with Leonel Vieira, who is also the showrunner, the person who leads the day-to-day creative work on a series.
The project has been building for some time. It was presented at Conecta Fiction & Entertainment in Toledo in 2024, where it won music-licensing support from Acorde and an invitation to Chile's Sanfic Industria Series Lab, a development programme for television writers and producers. It also took part in pitching sessions there. During development, the French distributor About Premium Content helped finance the project.
Volf Entertainment was founded in 2022 and is backed by an investment fund managed by Quadrantis Capital. Gisberta is the company's first true-crime title, a new genre for the studio.
For viewers in Portugal, the split means the series will be available both to people who already pay for Prime Video and to anyone with a television or a free ad-supported streaming account.
