Rome’s MIA Market Selects 60 Projects For Co-Production Pitch
deadline.comRome’s MIA Market has seen a 20% increase in submissions for its Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum, with 60 of the 600 received selected to be presented.
The number of submissions rose from 80 to 90, with a 12.5% increase in the number of countries of origin. Genres span drama, docs, film and animation The popular Drama Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum has seen submissions up 6%, with 14 series projects from 12 nations presenting.
Among the drama projects are Italian productions A Family Reunion (Riuione di Famiglia), a family thriller produced by Rosario Rinaldo for Cross Productions and written by Donatella Diamanti, Mauro Casiraghi, Simona Coppini, Alessandra Martellini, Marzio Paoltroni and Nicola Ravera Rafele; and Uglycomics (Fumettibrutti), which is based on the graphic novel trilogy by Josephine Yole Signorelli, produced by Bim Produzioni and written by Teresa Ciabatti, Laura Luchetti and Michele Pellegrini.
International co-productions Palmyra is a French-Lebanese story about three heiresses of a precious artefact from an ancient Syrian city, while The Aosawa Murders is a U.S.-Japanese effort based on Riku Onda’s book of the same name.
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