A Look At Italy’s Key Content material Occasion MIA Market – Deadline

Whereas the growth of native content material has seen elevated ambition from streaming platforms to compete with native broadcasters, native business occasions with sturdy regional focuses are more and more turning into engaging locations for U.S. corporations and executives and Rome’s MIA market is not any exception.

The modern Italian occasion, which stands for Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo or Worldwide Audiovisual Market, has quick turn into Italy’s key movie and TV market since its inception eight years in the past. The market, which runs October 11-15 alongside the Rome Movie Pageant (which kicks off October 13), has already confirmed a 120% improve in registrations year-on-year with delegates from corporations like Disney+, Paramount+, CAA, Fremantle, Sundance Institute, Sky, Warner Bros. Discovery, A+E Networks, Wild Bunch, StudioCanal and Banijay all confirmed to attend.

Its new director Gaia Tridente, who was beforehand head of scripted on the occasion, tells Deadline that she believes this upcoming version seems to be set to be its most dynamic version but.

“When MIA was born, it was extra targeted on movie distribution and was a spot for gross sales and patrons of theatrical movies,’ Tridente says. “However, within the final 5 years, the important thing pillars of the enterprise have moved.”

Certainly, the theatrical distribution mannequin has by no means been extra challenged and the expansion of investments from main streaming platforms for native product has turn into far more evident. In consequence, Tridente, who has labored at MIA since 2017, says the distinguished business occasion has pivoted accordingly year-on-year.

“We’ve needed to adapt and attempt to anticipate this type of focus,” she says. “Subsequently, we’re balancing issues extra with world manufacturing in thoughts and, in fact, the altering fashions for serving to help the distribution arms, particularly for theatrical, which have been affected quite a bit by the pandemic years.”

The curated occasion is a three way partnership between Italian orgs ANICA (the commerce affiliation representing the Italian movie and audiovisual business, chaired by Francesco Rutelli) and APA (the Italian audiovisual producers affiliation chaired by Giancarlo Leone) and has monetary help from the federal government and regional cultural our bodies. It covers all segments of the audiovisual business from movie to drama to documentary and, for the primary time this yr, animation. There’s a variety of business applications and panels in addition to networking periods and pitching occasions.

MIA additionally plans to carry a number of actions in help of the Ukrainian audiovisual business. These embody a devoted sales space and hospitality part given to Kyiv Media Week 2022, the Ukrainian audiovisual discussion board. That occasion can’t be held in its house nation due to Russia’s ongoing invasion of the territory, so it’s happening in a touring format with a collection of periods developed in cooperation with main European fests and markets such because the Czech Republic’s Serial Killer, Italy’s MIA market and France’s Mipcom.

Tridente needs this yr’s MIA to symbolize a “large image of the entire ecosystem.”

“We’re launching an animation division, providing an increasing number of co-production segments for documentary, drama and movie and we’re giving extra energy and can go extra in depth for the innovation segments. We’re presenting extra content material associated to digital worlds and the way new know-how are giving advantages to the enterprise not directly.”

Final yr, MIA noticed greater than 2,000 professionals from 58 nations contact down within the Italian capital for the occasion. Operating alongside the Rome Movie Pageant and some days earlier than Mipcom kicks off in Cannes on October 17, it’s a handy and engaging vacation spot for execs on their fall market travels. MIA’s principal hub sits within the Palazzo Barberini, the seventeenth century palace in Rome that homes the nation’s historical artwork and stands are dotted across the Baroque artwork – who wouldn’t need to do enterprise in such a powerful setting?

“We in fact have to contemplate the agenda of worldwide gamers attending not solely the TV market but additionally the Rome Movie Pageant in October,” Tridente stresses in terms of curating the agenda at MIA.

Confirmed company this yr embody CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland, Nameless Content material’s David Davoli, Ingredient Photos’ Ed Guiney, CAA’s head of world tv Ted Miller, Netflix Italy’s Eleonora Andreatta and MUBI’s co-head of world acquisitions Cate Kane to call just some.

For Tridente, attracting these large gamers is vital as the worldwide content material business continues to evolve.

“What I’m making an attempt to do is figure actually shut between establishment group gamers and I believe that that is bringing attention-grabbing or new alternatives not just for me however for the entire market as a result of what we’re doing now’s constructing an editorial program primarily based on the pillars of content material. Content material has all the time been the principle a part of my job, so I believe if we’re ready to usher in excessive degree producers engaged on the most popular initiatives or matters of the second or latest form of exhibits, then we’re doing job.”