BOOK ADAPTATION RIGHTS MARKET - VENICE 3-5.09.2021 - MARKET FOR SELECTED PROJECTS - Venice Production Bridge

BOOK
ADAPTATION
RIGHTS
MARKET
VENICE
3—5.09.2021

                     MARKET
              FOR SELECTED PROJECTS

From the beginning, the Venice Production Bridge was
established to foster the development and production
of international and European projects across a range
of audio-visuals forms. The idea consisted in building
an opportunity of encountering and networking for all
the professionals involved in production and to provide
them with a wide range of services which would be
corresponding to every production stages.
The story being the key element, we created, six years ago,
the Book Adaptation Rights Market (BARM) with a
precise intent : being different from what was already
existing in the festivals.
We proposed and are still proposing renowned
international publishing houses and publishers to present
not only their new titles but also the complete catalogues.
The increasing demand for stories to be adapted not only
for the big screen but also for TV and the streaming
platforms and the success of the BARM, lead us to extend
the number of publishers from 15 to 25.

one-to-one meetings
                                                                                           more than 300 in 2019
                                                                                           more than 172 in 2020
The BARM organizes one-to-one meetings (more than 300 in
2019) over 3 days (Sept 3-5, 2021) in order to trigger encounters
between producers and publishers so that they can foster long
time relationships.
Last year for the 5th edition, despite the pandemic, 18 publishers
have participated to the BARM (13 on site and 5 online) and 172
meetings were organized (135 on site and 37 online). For the first
time the international publishers had to record the pitch of their
new titles as well as to present their complete catalogues in a
short video, which was available on the VPB website so that all
producers, on-site and online, were able to discover the richness
and diversity of those publishing houses.

In 2020 we welcomed for the first time,
the publishers and literary agents:
Agenzia Malatesta (Italy)
Mondadori Libri (Italy)
Northern Stories (Norway)
Sperling - Frasinelle - Piemme (Italy)
Suhrkamp Verlag (Germany)
that joined some of our faithful publishers and agents:
DeA Planeta Libri (Italy)
Éditions de l'Homme Sans Nom (France)
Editorial Planeta (Spain)
Elisabeth Ruge Agentur GmbH (Germany)
Feltrinelli Editore (Italy)
Giulio Einaudi Editore (Italy)
Gruppo Editoriale Mauri Spagnol (Italy)
Lannoo Publishers (Belgium)
Michael Gaeb Literary Agency (Germany)
Nottetempo (Italy)
Rizzoli (Italy)
Singel. Uitgeverijen (The Netherlands)
and without forgetting all the other ones:
Abrams/The Overlook Press (USA)
Actes Sud (France)
Andrew Nurberg Associates (UK)
Blue Ocean Press (USA)
De Bezige Bij (Netherlands)
Diogenes Verlag AG (Switzerland)
Flammarion (France)
Gallimard (France)
Glenat (France)
Madeleine Milbrune Agency (UK)
Mediatoon Audiovisual Rights (France)
Nefeli Publishing (Greece)
OeFA-Oetinger Filmrechte-Agentur (Germany)
Rights & Brands (Finland)
Salomonsson Agency (Sweden)
Sellerio (Italy)
Ullstein (Germany)

Among the most famous titles of our publishers
the following have already been adapted to the big screen:
The Divergent saga, Ready Player One and Red Sparrow (DeA Planeta Libri, Italy)
Patria and Palmeras en la nieve (Editorial Planeta, Spain)
The Shape of Water, Harry Potter and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Gruppo Editoriale Mauri Spagnol, Italy)
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen (Lannoo Publishers, Belgium)
The Orphanage and Narziss Und Goldmund (Suhrkamp Verlag)
The Book Thief and The Girl on the train (Sperling & Kupfer - Frasinelli - Piemme)
Romanzo Criminale and Siberian Education (Giulio Einaudi Editore)

And the producers had the pleasure to meet also the publishers
of Boris Pasternak, Doris Lessing and Roberto Saviano (Feltrinelli Editore, Italy)
Paolo Cognetti, Marco Missiroli (Agenzia Malatesta, Italy)
Michel Houellebecq, Daniel Kehlmann, Patrick Modiano (Singel Uitgeverijen, The Netherlands)
Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, Michael Haneke, Svetlana Alexievich (Elisabeth Ruge Argentur Gmbh, Germany)
and many other publishers from Belgium, Norway, France...

The uniqueness of this 3-day event have always consisted not
only in the organization of 1-to-1 meetings between the
publishers and the producers, but also in enabling them to
develop their network in a productive and welcoming setting.
This has been prooved by the fact that around the 90% of the
publishers that partecipate to the BARM are willing to
partecipate to the future editions as well as by the quality of the
producers with whom they met (Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Alpha
Violet, Arsenal Filmverleih, Arte France, Bac Films, Best Friend
Forever, Bim Distribuzione, Cattleya, Celluloid Dreams, Curzon
Artificial Eye, Fandango, Films Boutique, Gutek Film, Koch Film,
LevelK, Memento, MK2, Modern Films, MPM Film, Oculus VR,
Orange, Picturehouse UK, Protagonist Pictures, Rai Cinema, Sky
Italia, Studio Canal UK, The Match Factory, UGC, Wide, Wild
Bunch….).

In 2021, we are thus welcoming you to this 3-day Book
Adaptation Rights Market. The Venice Production Bridge with
this event renews its vocation to foster the development and
production of international and European projects across a range
of audiovisual forms. The meetings will allow to make deals on
the adaptation of novels, drama, children's literature, short
stories, comics, graphic novels, essays, biographies.

                                         labiennale.org
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        Accredited delegates will be able to book one-to-one meetings through a dedicated area
                          within the new Venice Production Bridge Website.

                                                Contacts
               For any general information or questions, please do not hesitate to contact:
                                              Chiara Marin
                                          vpb@labiennale.org
                                          Ph. +39 041 2726 595