EXCLUSIVE: Sony Footage Tv (SPT) will introduce a drama award at this week’s MIA Market in Rome.
The Sony Footage Tv Award will likely be introduced for the primary time on the Italian business confab. This may go to the winner of the annual MIA Drama Coproduction Market & Pitching Discussion board, with a jury from Sony Footage Tv making the selection from the 15 in rivalry.
Tasks in rivalry embrace Eighties Parisian skinheads drama Rage, which will likely be directed by Xavier Dolan, and Dutch artwork theft drama Hitler’s Horses: An Arthur Model Story, produced by Femke Wolting from Submarine and written by Ed McCardie. There are additionally tasks from Palestine, the UK, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Switzerland, Eire, Norway and, after all, Italy.
SPT has been an enormous supporter of MIA through the years, with the President of Sony Footage Tv Studios, Katherine Pope, talking on stage final 12 months. She’ll be on the town once more this week to current the award, as SPT turns into the official sponsor of the Drama Coproduction Marketplace for the primary time.
The launch of the Sony Footage Tv Award “underscores a shared dedication to fostering revolutionary new voices, selling worldwide coproductions, and telling tales with the potential to transcend borders,” SPT and MIA collectively stated.
“We’re thrilled to companion with MIA and Gaia Tridente’s unbelievable workforce and set up the Sony Footage Tv Award for Finest Drama Challenge 2025,” stated Pope. “The Drama Coproduction Market at MIA brings collectively creators from around the globe who’re pushing boundaries and pondering globally. We’re excited to assist these sorts of daring tasks that may journey throughout cultures whereas sustaining their distinctive voice. You will need to champion these tales and the gifted groups behind them.”
MIA boss Tridente has repeatedly positioned her market as one the place stand-out tasks actually start their journeys to display screen.
“This recognition, by the brand new Sony Footage Tv Award, seals an essential partnership with a worldwide main and highlights the worth of the MIA Co-Manufacturing Market,” she stated as we speak. “I’m particularly grateful to Katherine Pope and Sony Footage Tv for his or her belief and imaginative and prescient, which confirms the strategic function of MIA as a platform for worldwide co-production.
“This award celebrates the drama tasks and abilities that emerge from our market, reinforcing our mission to attach creativity and enterprise on a worldwide scale. Collectively, we purpose to foster tales with worldwide resonance and supply producers with concrete alternatives to develop and succeed.”
MIA begins as we speak (October 6) and runs by the week, gently warming up members for subsequent week’s MIPCOM. Now in its eleventh 12 months, and fourth with Tridente on the helm, the occasion is closely targeted on its pitching competitions for drama, documentaries and animation.
This 12 months, there can even be a Guide Adaptation Discussion board and coaching initiative Apollo Collection, which has been developed in partnership with Collection Mania Institute and Goteborg Movie TV’s Drama Imaginative and prescient observe. There can even be a short-film showcase, ‘Vertical’ AI workshops curated by Largo.ai, and an Business Insider Bootcamp, which is introduced by UTA.
As typical, there can even be panel periods, content material showcases, the MIA Patrons’ Membership, the C EU Quickly work-in-progress program, market screenings, networking periods, workshops, roundtables and conferences. The 2024 version attracted 2,800 members, up 10% year-on-year.
