Rome MIA Market Takeaways, From Bracing for Netflix Fallout to Italy’s Production Slump and European Producers Fighting Back

The 12th MIA Market in Rome brought film and television executives, filmmakers and producers together amid major upheaval in the global entertainment industry. Netflix’s recent cuts and leadership changes, alongside mergers and retrenchment elsewhere, left attendees weighing how production and distribution may change, while European producers looked for ways to respond.

The market expanded to venues along Via Veneto, shifted its dates to coincide with the Rome Film Festival and Alice nella Città, and introduced a gap-financing market for animation series. It also launched a strand on financing tools, including equity capital, as Italy’s production sector faces a slump. MIA head Gaia Tridente said the changes were intended to strengthen Rome’s role as an international audiovisual hub and give the market room to grow.