MIA MARKET 2017 Previews
Italian cinema is going to war. The weapons used, however, have changed. The films on display at MIA, the Audiovisual Market, scheduled in Rome from 19 to 23 October, show different tastes, genres and characteristics. Comedy, once accused of failing to cross national...
In conversation with… Daniel Dae Kim, panel at MIA|TV 2017
MIA Market 2017 will host actor, director and producer Daniel Dae Kim in a MIA | TV panel of the “In Conversation With…” format, moderated by Marco Spagnoli, journalist and film & TV critic. Daniel Dae Kim is mainly known to the public for his role of Jin Soo...
Yalda (JBA Production) by Massoud Bakhshi is one of the projects of MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum
Maryam (26) is “temporarily married” to Naser (65). She accidentally kills him, but is pregnant with his child. In Iran, only a victim’s family can forgive the killer. For Maryam, this pardon plays out on the country’s most popular reality show. She quickly discovers...
We are the Winners (Archimede-Kino Produzioni) by Giovanni Piperno is one of the projects of MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum
Marco is a boy full of energy, he is often frustrated and angry because he lives in a difficult district without any space for imagination. He is unemployed and his family situation is far from ideal because his mother has a mental disease. Anna, his big love, is his...
Woodland (Fiction Factory) by Jeff Norton is one of the projects for the MIA|TV Drama Series Pitching Forum
Woodland is a genre-bending twist on every parent’s worst nightmare. What starts as ‘missing kid’ case soon bends genres to question the very nature of faith, reality, and the treatment of those who are not like us. We combine the urgency of a missing child case with...
Dicktatorship (DocLab) by Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi is one of the projects of the MIA|DOC Pitching Forum
“To have a penis is to be chained to a madman” wrote Sophocles more than 2500 years ago. He was right then and he is still right today. Donald Trump won the White House despite his openly misogynist and chauvinistic stands. Intellectuals, feminists, activists,...
The Valley of Stone Rivers (Etnoscopio) by Pablo Nieto and Hugo Chávez Carvajal is one of the projects of MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum
This documentary delves into the experiences of four older people whose lives were marked by the rivers, lakes and canals of Mexico City, when water was much more present in the metropolitan area than it is today. This documentary seeks to narrate how we have lived...
The Tentmaster’s Daughter (Patchwork Production) by Isabel Anderton is one of the projects of MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum
Jess, a15-year-old loner, arrives at a travelling Circus, surprising her estranged father Mick. He reluctantly lets her stay with him, his Romanian girlfriend Nadia and toddler Katerina. Jess thinks it’s all going to be great. However, Circus life and people are...
4 Words for Love created by Steven Bawol and Richard Hurst is one of the projects for the MIA|TV Drama Series Pitching Forum
Paris is the City of Love. Some come looking for love, others to celebrate their love, still others in hopes of keeping love alive. Think about the thousand of locks on the bridges of Paris. Every lock has a love story behind it. Some funny, some sad, some...
Sweet Hell Throughout Galaxy by Fábio Baldo is one of the projects of MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum
Pedro is a small farmer who has just acquired his first plot of land. To try to cancel the debt, he invests all of his family’s savings in non-transgenic seeds, provoking a small disruption in the local productive chain. Together with his wife and their only son,...
The Searchers (Tangram Films) by Andreas Prochaska is one of the projects of the MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum
In a not too distant future: Europe is ravaged by religious civil wars, epidemic plagues have decimated the survivors. Omar, a powerful warlord reigns with an iron fist. All books are burnt. Music is outlawed and prohibited. Most of the people cannot write nor read....
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