The Carlo Bixio Award returns to MIA 2024 for its 12th edition, continuing its tradition of recognizing outstanding emerging talent.
Organized by RTI, APA, and RAI, the competition invites writers under 35 to submit original serial projects, with no genre restrictions. The award celebrates innovation, creativity, originality, and international appeal—values that have always been at the core of the Prize. Following the rotating schedule between the two broadcasters, RTI raffled the 2024 prizes.
Supported by SIAE, the competition also features the “SIAE Idea d’Autore” plaque, awarded to the screenplay that demonstrates exceptional innovation and creativity. Additionally, starting this year, SanPaolo Invest — part of the Fideuram Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking Group — honors the project that excels in quality and has strong international market potential.
The 12th edition of the CARLO BIXIO AWARD for Best Series Concept went to Giovanni Mauriello for the CHUKAR project, for the contemporary story of the Roman suburbs that here shows an authentic face in complexity, for the delicacy of the characters who face the harshness of the world with the grace of the little chukar, the Pakistani partridges that give their name to the story, giving a vibrant and original look at the issues of rights and inclusion but, above all, on the most universal theme there is: love.
The award for Best Screenplay was won ex aequo by the project DOPPIO FALLO (Double Penalty) by Annalisa De Filippis and Eleonora Ghezzi – an original and new story, with two unforgettable characters: Bruno, a forty-year-old failed tennis promise, and Asia, an AMAB teenage athlete, committed to asserting herself, on and off the court. Two destinies that face each other in the most important match,that of life. Two different solitudes, two prime numbers that meet in a screenplay that impressed the jury because it challenges every genre and creates a unique story – and by the project LA NUBE (The Cloud) by Gianluca Tria and Lorenzo Garofalo, for the courage and expertise in tackling a dramatic and thorny topic in Italian recent history: the Seveso disaster. Told through the eyes and lives of ordinary people, unaware victims of that tragedy. Well-described and vivid characters that are not forgotten. The result is a passionate and intense social story, a piece of history that is still missing in our narrative
The SIAE Award for best original screenplay went to IL GIOCO DELL’OCA (The Game of theGoose) by Diego Pelizza, for the calibrated suspense and well-orchestrated narrative tension with which a cue somewhere between Black Mirror and Squid Game is developed: a cruel challenge borrowed from the classic children’s game, but this time with a deadly stake, to which innocent victims are subjected who are unable to escape.
The Fideuram Award for young people goes to the concept GLI INCERTI (The Incertis) by Marco Pozzato and MatteoCalzolaio, for the rich and varied narrative structure with which this concept explores the life of a family home for “borderline” kids, run by the Incerti family, from the point of view of their teenage son Andrea. The problems of a classic “coming of age” are reflected and multiplied in the lives of variously “at risk” kids, continually balanced between rebellion and tenderness, in the wake of a great affection and a great vocation that cements all the members of this unique and rare family: the Incerti.
