07 May 2025
In its 4ᵃ edition, the event dedicated to researching new stories and the possibilities of adapting edited texts to the screen announces the authors of Fiction Factory Showcase 2025, a pitching session dedicated to showcasing new original stories that are still unpublished and could become the novels, feature films, or television series or graphic novels of tomorrow. After evaluating more than 150 original subjects, nine stories, which will be presented to the attending audience of publishing and audiovisual professionals, were selected by authors and screenwriters of the ScriptaBo Association. Nine independent stories that tell a changing Italy, between memory and contemporaneity, dealing with power, exclusion and human ties. A common thread unites them: the search for freedom, justice and identity. The Showcase will be introduced again this year by writer Giancarlo Liviano D'arcangelo and will end with the awarding of the best subject that will win the @FictionFactory Showcase Award.
Opening the program on Monday, June 9, 2025, will be Adaptation Market, a closed-door market between publishers and literary agents who option the rights of texts to producers interested in creating film-television transpositions of them. 27 publishers and literary agencies will meet with production houses, OTTs and TV platforms including: Articolture, Aurora Tv, Cattleya, Elsinore, Fandango, Gaumont, I Wonder Pictures, Indyca, Kiné, Movimenti, Nightswim, Passo Uno Cinema, Settembre Produzioni, Sky Studios Italia, Sonne Film, Stand by Me, Wendy Film, Aleo Film and many others to be confirmed. Online is the complete catalog with publishing proposals from every publishing house and literary agency in the Market.
Also on the program is the panel WHEN EDITORIAL AND AUDIOVISUAL LANGUAGE SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE - From Negotiation to Agreement: how the negotiation of option and acquisition of rights for film and television adaptations works.
In addition, to present the opportunities and new challenges of Bio to b - Drama, together with the Regional Councillor for Culture and the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission, Bio to B - Industry Days coordinator Caterina Mazzucato will speak on Friday, May 16, 2025 at the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino 2025 on the panel From Book to Film: books landed on the screen and markets of opportunities.
