– MIA
MIA – the new International Audiovisual Market
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ilms, tv series, documentaries, videogames: for the first time in Italy, a Market will cover all the segments of the audiovisual industry.
MIA will offer Audiovisual professionals networking opportunities, screenings, panels, lectures, workshops, co-production meetings, roundtables, focuses on the latest market trends, on co-production and distribution at the global scale, with particular attention to the new platforms, transmedia storytelling and gaming (with the participation of Aesvi – the Association of Italian Videogame Publishers and Developers).
The main venues for the event will be the complex of the Baths of Diocletian, the Hotel Boscolo Exedra and the Quattro Fontane multiplex.
MIA is a collective instrument to boost the internationalization of the entire Italian audiovisual sector and will involve, in both a strategic and operative role, all of the most committed and consolidated associations of Italian producers and distributors: for cinema, Anica (National Association of Cinema and Audiovisual Industries) and the Fondazione Cinema per Roma; for television and Agorà activities, the APT (Association of Television Producers); for documentaries, the Doc/it association.
MIA is made possible by the support of the Ministry for Economic Development and ICE – Italian Trade Promotion Agency, and will be endorsed by the Ministry for the Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and by Istituto Luce – Cinecittà. It will also count on the collaboration of the Roma Lazio Film Commission, working in synergy with the Italian Film Commissions Association.