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The new edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market
From 30 August to 1 September at the Venice Production Bridge as part of the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
Book Adaptation Rights Market
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.
A brochure gathering all the publishers and literary agents and their new titles as well as their catalogue will be sent to all registered producers beforehand.
The VPB Focus 2024 will be dedicated to Luxembourg & Wallonia-Brussels and Japan.
The selected publishers
The 33 publishers and literary agents invited to this year’s event of the Book Adaptation Rights Market are:
ALT autores editorial (Spain)
Andrew Nurnberg Associates (United Kingdom)
BAO Publishing (Italy)
Cappelen Damm Agency (Norway)
Copywrite GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)
De Bezige Bij (Netherlands)
Éditions HSN (France)
Editorial Anagrama S.A.U (Spain)
Fraktura (Croatia)
GeMS - Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol (Italy)
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore (Italy)
Giulio Einaudi Editore (Italy)
Giunti Editore & Bompiani (Giunti Group) (Italy)
Grandi & Associati (Italy)
Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd. (Japan) – Focus on Japan
Lantia Publishing (Spain)
MalaTesta Literary Agency (Italy)
Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents (United States of America)
Katalin Mund Literary Agency (Metropolis Media) (Hungary)
Mondadori Libri SpA (Italy)
Otago Literary Agency (Italy)
Penguin Random House Germany (Germany)
Penguin Random House UK (United Kingdom)
Rizzoli/Mondadori Libri SpA (Italy)
Rowohlt Verlag GmbH (Germany)
Silvia Meucci Agency (Italy)
Singel Uitgeverijen (Netherlands)
Sulakauri Publishing (Georgia)
Susanna Lea Associates (France)
The Italian Literary Agency (Italy)
Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. (Japan) – Focus on Japan
Tunué (Italy)
Zeitgeist Agency (Belgium) – Focus on Wallonia-Brussels
What’s new in 2024
Every year the Book Adaptation Rights Market highlights a literary genre. This year it will be Crime and Thriller with publishing houses and literary agencies, which, among their latest titles, have dedicated a particular attention to this genre: ALT autores editorial, Andrew Nurnberg Associates, Copywrite GmbH & Co. KG, GeMS - Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Giunti Editore & Bompiani (Giunti Group), Grandi & Associati, Lantia Publishing, MalaTesta Lit. Agency, Katalin Mund Literary Agency (Metropolis Media), Penguin Random House Germany, Rizzoli/Mondadori Libri SpA, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., Zeitgeist Agency.
Ever since its first edition, the Book Adaptation Rights Market has met with great success as proven by the publishers’ requests to participate again in this event, as well as by a growing demand from the producers looking for original intellectual properties (IP).
The new brochure that gathers all the details of the invited publishers and literary agents for this year’s edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market will be available soon on the section “VPB Brochures Downloads’’ of the Venice Production Bridge website: www.veniceproductionbridge.org
