Rome’s MIA Market is launching a brand new strand devoted to animated sequence referred to as the Animation Sequence Hole Financing Market, and likewise an progressive hub to facilitate entry for European productions to worldwide financing, plus a brand new initiative focussed on experiential networking.
MIA (the acronym stands for the Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo or Worldwide Audiovisual Market) is launching the Animation Sequence Hole Financing Market that’s conceived as “a new industry format aimed at projects already supported by broadcasters and partially financed,” in keeping with an announcement. Producers and broadcasters will current animated sequence tasks searching for worldwide co-producers, co-financiers and co-commissioners, aiming to shut their financing to allow them to launch into manufacturing.
The Funding Hub will likely be a two-day platform for talks delving into European and worldwide monetary funds that assist manufacturing. MIA stated it might provide European and worldwide operators a transparent and concrete view of obtainable co-production funds in addition to fairness traders, and of entry them.
The distinctive, pre-Mipcom, boutique market can be launching the Casa MIA networking lounge, a brand new house situated near the primary market areas accessible to all accredited members that goals to “redefine the market experience and strengthen its relational dimension,” the assertion stated.
Rome MIA Market Chief Gaia Tridente throughout a Cannes press convention stated the market is present process a change underneath which it goals to unite its vertical content material segments right into a extra built-in business platform.
“The objective is to address the sector’s real needs, generate new economies and offer concrete
tools for the development and sustainability of companies in the sector,” the assertion stated.
“With the 2026 edition, MIA takes another step forward in strengthening its identity as an international platform serving the entire film and audiovisual industry,” famous Alessandro Usai, head of Italy’s movement image affiliation ANICA.
The twelfth version of MIA will run Oct. 19-23 within the Everlasting Metropolis.
