MIA STORIES
In collaboration with Italian and international partners, MIA expands its offer with initiatives dedicated to the incubation of new projects. Since last year, the market has hosted pitch sessions, showcases, and B2B meetings, designed to give professionals the opportunity to discover new content and intellectual properties. These activities aim to promote and circulate talents and stories, consolidating MIA’s role as a strategic platform for networking and project development within the international audiovisual industry.
SCENARI TRANSALPINI
A project of the Institut français Italia in partnership with MIA and Villa Medici, in collaboration with Cinecittà, supported by the DGCA – Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, promoting collaboration between the French and Italian audiovisual industries by supporting the development of new works.
The six projects selected for the 2025 edition are:
- The Clan of the Marseillais / Il Clan dei Marsigliesi produced by Giorgio Gucci and written by Alessandro Fabbri (Italy)
- The White Queen / La regina bianca by Sara Loffredi and Alberto Ostini (Italy)
- Ex Tenebris Lux by Giacomo Arrigoni (Italy)
- La linea verde by Elio and Chiara Cassaghi (France)
- Lake Como by Hanna Ladoul and Marco La Via (France)
- O Sole Mio by Marguerite and Thérèse Quadrelli (France)
APOLLO SERIES
Apollo Series is a new training program created by the Series Mania Institute and dedicated to supporting emerging European producers in the development of strong serial projects with genuine international potential, in partnership with MIA and TV Drama Vision of the Göteborg Film Festival.
Apollo Series aims to strengthen the skills of European producers through targeted training on the legal, financial, and artistic aspects of co-productions. The program combines high-level training with exclusive access to key industry platforms, offering participants concrete tools and networking opportunities with producers, broadcasters, and potential partners.
The program will officially launch at MIA, continue at TV Drama Vision during the Göteborg Film Festival (January 2026), and conclude at the Series Mania Forum in Lille in March 2026. At MIA, two closed-door working days and two days open to the industry market in Rome are planned.
Among the European producers and projects selected for the first edition of Apollo Series are:
- Serena Alfieri (Italy) with Hallyu
- Anders Berg (Denmark) with The Acid Clinic
- Estephania Bonnett (Spain) with Alex Is Not Alex
- Evelin Penttilä (Estonia) with Business as Usual
- Jimm Garbis (Sweden) with Yani
- Steffen Gerdes (Germany) with The Dark Grimm
- Anna Gonchar (Ukraine) with Outlaw Educators
- Karoline Kunz (Germany) with Le Grand Cahier
- Marcian Lazar (Romania) with Bark
- Viktorija Rimkutė (Lithuania) with
For more details: http://seriesmania.com/institute/en/program/apollo-series-workshop-european-producers/
UNBOX
MIA strengthens its partnership with Alice nella città by presenting a new edition of UNBOX | Short Film Days, three days dedicated to pitching sessions, conferences, workshops, and professional meetings which, over the past two years, have enriched the official short film competition of Alice.
For its third edition, UNBOX consolidates its role as an international reference platform for short films, creating dialogue between film schools, academies, producers, distributors, and young directors, while offering new opportunities for experimentation and collaboration.
With the claim “The Talents of the Future”, the 2025 program includes three main actions:
- UNBOX | Pitching – the public presentation of six debut feature projects by young Italian filmmakers who have distinguished themselves in short film.
- UNBOX | Academy – designed to build a bridge between emerging European film talents.
- General Assembly of Short Films | Focus 2025 – dedicated to the crucial theme of short film funding.
Through this collaboration, MIA and Alice nella città relaunch a project that puts the spotlight on new generations of talent, expanding the offer of a market already recognized as an international hub for business, debate, and exchange among top executives of the audiovisual industry.
