The 2025 edition of the Venice Production Bridge (August 28th to September 3rd, 2025), will be held during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. Continuously adapting to anticipate and respond to industry evolution, the Venice Production Bridge focuses on production and to make available a wide range of services, projects and networking events to producers.
Indeed, the Venice Production Bridge allows all producers to meet financiers, co-producers, private and public funds and institutions, distributors, sales agents, publishers, broadcasters and streaming platforms, VFX and post-production companies… in dedicated spaces and venues at the Excelsior Hotel, 3rd floor, on the Venice Lido, and on the Venice Immersive Island for all immersive activities (Lazzaretto Vecchio).
Venice Gap-Financing Market (August 29 – 31)
The Venice Gap-Financing Market is a platform for selected projects that aims to support European and international producers to secure financing for their projects (Fiction Films, Documentaries and Immersive Projects) through one-to-one meetings with potential and pertinent international professionals (producers, sales agents, distributors, financiers, broadcasters and funds). All the invited professionals are decision-makers.
More than 60 international projects including Biennale College Cinema and BCC Virtual Reality projects are presented during this 3-day co-production market. The VGFM offers to the producers of long features (fiction, animation and documentary) and Immersive projects the possibility to encounter financiers and professionals through 30-minute one-to-one meetings.
Book Adaptation Rights Market (August 29-31)
Voted in by the publishing world, the Book Adaptation Rights Market offers to 30 International and renowed selected publishers, publishing houses and literary agencies a dedicated area within the Venice Production Bridge venues. During three days, one-to-one meetings between them and international producers are set up, giving them a unique opportunity to foster long-time relationships and of course to make deals around the adaptations of novels, dramas, thriller and crime, short stories, comics, graphic novels, essays, biographies
Through one-to-one meetings more than 30 international publishers present their entire catalogue to the producers and discuss about the adaptation rights of their works (novels, essays, graphic novels, children literature…).
Final Cut in Venice (August 31 –September 2)
Since 2013, Final Cut in Venice offers concrete assistance in the completion of films from all African countries and from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen and gives producers and directors an opportunity to present films still in production phase to international film professionals and distributors in order to facilitate post-production and promote co-production partnerships and market access. The programme consists in three days of activities, in which the working copies of a maximum of selected films are presented to partners, producers, buyers, distributors and film festival programmers.
This programme presents 6 quality films plus those invited for the VPB Focuses and gives them the opportunity to complete their post-production financing through our partners and the participants.
The programme is also providing prizes in kind or in cash to complete the films, which will be offered by our partners and could include, and not be limited to, color correction, sound mixing, production of DCP, French or English subtitles.
Meet the Streamers (August 31 –September 1)
New and indispensable players of the cinema and audiovisual world, around 20 European and International streaming platforms are selected and are looking for buying content and co-producing films and TV series. The VPB is organizing one-to-one meetings between them and sales agents, distributors, producers, publishers and rights holders on September 1 and 2 at the third floor of the Excelsior Hotel.
Venice Immersive Market (August 28 – September 3)
Located on the Venice Immersive Island (Lazzaretto Vecchio island), the Venice Immersive Market is gathering all our Immersive activities during the Venice International Film Fetsival. The selected films for the Venice Immersive competition are presented through installations and stand-ups, the Immersive projects of both the Venice Gap-Financing Market and the Biennale College Cinema VR, panels dedicated to Immersive topics and an Exhibition Area for Institutions, public and private funds, the manufacturers, the VR production, distribution and sales companies, public and private funds supporting VR/XR/AR, VFX and post-production companies which are connected to Immersive content.
Also this year, through the VPB Focuses, the Venice Production Bridge will shine a spotlight on the United Kingdom, Chile and Morocco. The Focus on the United Kingdom is supported by British Film Institute, the Focus on Chile is supported by Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Gobierno de Chile and the Focus on Morocco is supported by Centre Cinématographique Marocain. These will include additional projects (both feature films and immersive) within the Venice Gap-Financing Market, publishers at the Book Adaptation Rights Market, work-in-progress within Final Cut in Venice, platforms and broadcasters at Meet the Streamers, dedicated panels and networking events, and a large delegation of professionals (public funds, festivals, producers, immersive experts, private financial institutions, sales agents and distributors) coming from these countries.
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