VENEZIA 2024: Venice Production Bridge

The 2024 edition of the Venice Production Bridge (August 29 to September 3, 2024), will be held during the 81. Venice International Film Festival.
Constantly adjusting itself to follow and to foresee the evolution of the industry, the Venice Production Bridge focuses on production and to make available a wide range of services, projects and networking events to producers.

The Venice Production Bridge allows all producers to meet financiers, co-producers, private and public funds and institutions, distributors, sales agents, publishers, broadcasters and streaming platforms, VFX and post-production companies… in dedicated spaces and venues at the Excelsior Hotel, 3rd floor, on the Venice Lido, and on the Venice Immersive Island for all immersive activities (Lazzaretto Vecchio).

The complete chain of production is offered to producers: from the idea and I.P. [Book Adaptation Rights Market (BARM)] to the financial completion of projects [Venice Gap-Financing Market (VGFM) and Venice Immersive Market (VIM)], from work-in-progress screenings looking for a financial or in kind support [Final Cut in Venice (FCV)] to the sales and distribution [Market Screenings] or the linear and the streaming broadcasting [Meet the Streamers (MTS)].

All these activities, as well as selected presentations, panels, networking and social events are conceived in order to increase business-to-business exchanges among European and International professionals.

 

IN FOCUS:
Through the European and international VPB Focuses, the Venice Production Bridge will shine a spotlight on Luxembourg & Wallonia-Brussels and Japan.
The Focus on Luxembourg & Wallonia-Brussels is supported by Film Fund Luxembourg and Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel and the Focus on Japan is supported by JETRO.
These will include additional projects (both feature films and immersive) within the Venice Gap-Financing Market, publishers at the Book Adaptation Rights Market, work-in-progress within Final Cut in Venice, platforms and broadcasters at Meet the Streamers, dedicated panels and networking events, and a large delegation of  professionals (public funds, festivals, producers, immersive experts, private financial institutions, sales agents and distributors…) coming from these countries.

 

DOWNLOAD THE FULL VPB PRESS RELEASE HERE

 

 

BROCHURES OF THE VPB PROJECTS AND BOOKING OF ONE TO ONE MEETINGS:

 

Meet with the Venice Gap-Financing Market teams behind the 34 Fiction and Documentary projects, the 3 fiction Biennale College Cinema projects, the 16 Immersive projects, and the 8 Biennale College Cinema Immersive projects.
Connect with the prominent 33 publishers and literary agents, who have been carefully selected and will present their adaptation rights during the Book Adaptation Rights Market, as well as the 7 filmmakers participating in Final Cut in Venice. All will be available in person in Venice.

 

ACCESS THE BROCHURES WITH THE DETAILS OF THE PROJECTS AND PUBLISHERS HERE

 

Kindly note:
Meetings can only be requested by professionals holding Industry Gold or Industry Trade credentials for the 81. Venice International Film Festival.
It is not possible to book a meeting without Industry credentials.
The accreditation needs to have been fully paid for in advance. Please allow a minimum of 48 hours between the completion of your registration and access to the reserved areas of the Venice Production Bridge website.

 

VENICE GAP-FINANCING MARKET
August 30 – September 1

 

 

The 11th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (August 30 – September 1, 2024), organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place during the forthcoming 81st Venice International Film Festival (August 28th – September 7th, 2024) and will offer selected projects from Europe and around the world the opportunity to close their international financing, through one-to-one meetings with international decision-makers.
The selection is divided as follows:

·       34 feature-length Fiction Film and Documentary projects (incl. 6 VPB Focus projects)

·       16 Immersive projects (incl. 4 VPB Focus projects)

·       8 Biennale College Cinema – Immersive projects

·       3 Biennale College Cinema projects

During the 3 days, the Venice Gap-Financing Market will present 61 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding. The Venice Gap-Financing Market will be setting up one-to-one meetings between the teams (producer and director) of the projects and top industry decision-makers (producers, private and public financiers, banks, distributors, sales agents, TV commissioners, streamers, VoD platforms, institutions, post-production companies…). All meetings will be held at the Venice Production Bridge venues (Excelsior Hotel and Venice Immersive island) and organised through the Venice Production Bridge website.

In order to book a meeting, please follow the link you find on the page of the project you like to meet with on the VPB website.

 

BOOK YOUR VGFM MEETINGS HERE

 

BOOK ADAPTATION RIGHTS MARKET
August 30 – September 1

 

 

The 9th edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market (August 30th – September 1st, 2024), organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place in-person at the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido di Venezia, during the forthcoming 81st Venice International Film Festival (August 28th – September 7th, 2024).

Following the call which was launched on January the 15th, the Book Adaptation Rights Market has selected 30 international publishing houses and literary agencies plus 3 for the VPB Focuses (1 within the Focus on Luxembourg Wallonia – Brussels supported by Film Fund Luxembourg and Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel and 2 within the Focus on Japan supported by JETRO).

The Venice Production Bridge will give them a dedicated area to meet the producers registered to the Venice International Film Festival through one-to-one meetings. The meetings will allow to foster lasting relationships and to make deals on the adaptation of novels, dramas, children’s literature, short stories, comics, graphic novels, essays, and biographies.

The Book Adaptation Rights Market will enable the invited publishers to propose their entire catalogue for film adaptation, rather than focusing on a single book, as opposed to other events dedicated to publishing within the scope of film festivals.

In order to book a meeting, please follow the link you find on the page of the publisher you like to meet with on the VPB website.

 

BOOK YOUR BARM MEETINGS HERE

 

FINAL CUT IN VENICE
August 30 – September 1

 

 

The seven work-in-progress films of the 12th edition of Final Cut in Venice have been selected. Final Cut in Venice is the industry program that has been providing since 2013 concrete support in the completion of films from all African countries and from five countries of the Middle East: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria. Final Cut in Venice is one of the projects launched by the Venice Production Bridge of the 81st Venice International Film Festival (August 28th – September 7th, 2024), directed by Alberto Barbera and organised by La Biennale di Venezia.

The programme offers the opportunity to present films still in production phase to international film professionals, in order to facilitate post-production and film market access.
The program consists in three days of activities (September 1st to 3rd 2024) on the Venice Lido during the Venice Production Bridge and 81st Venice Film Festival, in which the working copies of the 7 selected films are introduced to producers, buyers, distributors, post-production companies and film festival programmers.

In order to book a meeting, please follow the link you find on the page of the publisher you like to meet with on the VPB website.

 

BOOK YOUR FCV MEETINGS HERE

 

MEET THE STREAMERS
September 1 – 2

 

 

European and International VOD/SVOD platforms and broadcasters  attending Meet the Streamers will be able to propose their services to accredited (Gold or Trade pass-holders) international distributors, producers, publishers and AV professionals.

The one-to-one meetings will take place on September 1st from 09:30 a.m. to 06:30 p.m. and on September 2nd from 11:30 a.m. to 06:30 p.m., moreover the Venice Production Bridge will organize the panel on How Platforms and Broadcasters Can Help the Worldwide Circulation of Domestic Titles in the Increasingly Intertwined Cross-media Ecosystem on Monday, September 2nd, 10:00 – 11:00, at the Hotel Excelsior, Spazio Incontri (Panel Area).

The streamers selected for this edition of Meet the Streamers are:

  1. AMAZON PRIME VIDEO (United States of America/WW)
  2. CINÉ + OCS (CANAL PLUS GROUP) (France)
  3. CZECH TELEVISION IVYSILANI (Czech Republic)
  4. MINERVA PICTURES (The Film Club, Movieitaly+, Film&Clips) (Italy)
  5. NETERRA.TV (Bulgaria)
  6. OSN (United Arab Emirates)
  7. PROXIMUS (Belgium)
  8. RAI CINEMA CHANNEL (Italy)
  9. RTL BELGIUM (Belgium)
  10. WESHORT (Italy)

 

BOOK YOUR MEET THE STREAMERS MEETINGS HERE

 

MEETINGS, PRESENTATIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS AT THE 81. VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

 

 

During the 81st Venice International Film Festival, the Venice Production Bridge will host various important meetings, conferences, and presentations. The Venice Production Bridge, since 2016, provides opportunities for networking and exchanges for every category of professionals involved in making films.

The Venice Production Bridge will be held at the Excelsior Hotel, 3rd floor, on the Venice Lido (August 29th – September 6th), and on the Venice Immersive Island for all immersive activities (Lazzaretto Vecchio).

Selected panels and events that will take place in the Spazio Incontri at the Excelsior Hotel and in the Spazio Incontri Immersivo at the Venice Immersive Island, will be recorded and made available on the VPB Live Channel Archive.

For the third year, the Venice Production Bridge will organise the Venice Immersive Market, located on the Venice Immersive Island (Lazzaretto Vecchio island) gathering all our Immersive activities during the Venice International Film Festival. These activities include the presentation of immersive projects of both the Venice Gap-Financing Market and the Biennale College Cinema Immersive through 1-to-1 meetings; panels and networking events dedicated to immersive topics; an Exhibition Area for institutions, public and private funds supporting VR/XR/AR, manufacturers, production, distribution, sales, VFX and post-production companies which are connected to immersive content.

 

DOWNLOAD THE FULL MEETINGS AND SPECIAL EVENTS SCHEDULE HERE

 

For any further information or details, please do not hesitate to contact the VPB team.

With kind regards,
Venice Production Bridge team

 

The Venice Production Bridge is co-financed by the European Commission’s MEDIA Fund.

CLOSING NOTES
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Venice Production Bridge
29 August  – 3 September, 2024
81. Venice International Film Festival
28 August – 7 September, 2024
La Biennale di Venezia
Ca’ Giustinian – San Marco 1364/a
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