Submissions for the MIA 2025 Film Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum are now closed.
We sincerely thank all producers and creators who chose MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo to present their film projects for the 2025 edition.
The Film Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum is open to submissions of feature film projects, with a director attached and an available script, intended for theatrical distribution and digital streaming. The selected projects will be pitched to an audience of industry professionals and top international players from production and distribution companies, OTT platforms and broadcasters, as well as agents and financiers.
For the next edition of MIA, we will select around 15 titles from around the world. The selected projects will be presented in a dedicated pitching session and supported by the MIA|Film team in planning their tailor-made agenda of one-on-one business meetings.
Established as a benchmark for the European and International players, over the past editions the Film Co-Production Market has successfully led more than 50% of the selected films to their completion. Among them, to quote only a few, more recent titles:
My Uncle Jens (Brwa Vahabpour – SXSW, 2025), All Shall Be Well (Ray Yeung – Berlin Panorama, 2024), Animal (Sofia Exarchou – Locarno and Sarajevo, 2023), The Beautiful Summer (Laura Luchetti – Locarno, 2023), Mamacruz (Patricia Ortega – Sundance, 2023), Brujería (Christopher Murray – Göteborg and Sundance, 2023), Plus que jamais (Emily Atef – Cannes Un Certain Regard, 2022), Dalva (Emmanuelle Nicot – Cannes Semaine de la Critique, 2022), Broadway(Christos Massalas – IFFR Rotterdam, 2022), The Nightsiren (Tereza Nvotová – Locarno Concorso Cineasti del Presente, 2022), Cryptozoo (Dash Shaw – Sundance NEXT Innovator Award, 2021), Libertad (Clara Roquet – Cannes Semaine de la Critique, 2021), Assandira (Salvatore Mereu – Venice 77 Out of Competition, 2020), Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness(Massoud Bakhshi – Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Award, 2020), The Roads Not Taken (Sally Potter – Berlinale, 2020), Digger (Georgis Grigorakis – Berlinale, 2020), The Penultimate (Jonas Kærup Hjort – Tallinn, 2020), Eden (Agnes Kocsis – Rotterdam, 2020).
Alumni of Rome’s Co-Production Market also include: Agnieszka Holland, Joe Dante, Paddy Considine, Ritesh Batra, Jia Zhang-ke, Sheng Zhimin, Diego Lerman, Kadri Kousaar, Stephen Burke, Katarzyna Roslaniec, Alvaro Brechner, as well as some of the most interesting Italian names such as Marco Bellocchio, Sebastiano Riso, Laura Luchetti, Franco Maresco, Manetti Bros, Elisa Fuksas, Fulvio Risuleo, Valerio Mieli, Salvatore Mereu, Matteo Botrugno & Daniele Coluccini, Alessio Cremonini.
The call for applications closed on June 19th, 2025, at 5:00 PM CEST.
To check eligibility criteria, please see our Rules and Procedures 2025.
For any information concerning the Film Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum please refer to: filmcopro@miamarket.it.
