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Next edition: 13-15 May 2010 - Turin, Lingotto Conference Center
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IBF 2010 - Video
Some of our american participants relate their experience at IBF 2010 |
IBF 2010 - PhotsThe business area Photos by Ilaria Palmas
      The IBF 2010 featured a special focus on India
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IBF 2010: a record attendance
These three days saw many deals struck: Arlina Dudaj, head of Dudaj Publishing (Albania), bought the publishing rights for the translation of several books, as for example, Bianca come il latte rossa come il sangue by Alessandro D'Avenia from Mondadori, and Che la festa cominci by Niccolò Ammaniti from Kylee Doust agency (Dudaj had already bought the rights to his previous three books at the London and Frankfurt Book Fairs). |
Import-export of copyright in Italy 2003-2007: a research carried out by Doxa on behalf of the Italian Trade Commission (ICE) in collaboration with the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) No European publisher, much less those in Italy, could contemplate their business growth and development solely through the output of their national authors.Over one in five publishing houses in Italy “works” abroad: 21% of Italian publishers who produced a new book in 2007 have bought or sold publishing rights abroad over the last four years, a significant growth bearing in mind that the figure in 2004 was 15% (+75%).The two periods examined (2001-2003 and 2004-2008) have seen an increase in the number of publishers involved in exchange programmes and processes. There has been an increase both in the number of publishers who purchase from abroad and those who sell abroad. However, there are different dynamics due to company size that affect their organizational capacity, personnel and theeconomic-financial resources available for editorial projects: |
The studios at the IBF Among the international guests of the IBF 2010, expect to meet several North-American producers and book scouts looking for good ideas for an adaptation. Mark James is Director of Development & Production at Columbia Pictures/Sony Entertainment (they recently produced the film based on David Peace’s novel, Damned United, a book on the life of the legendary football manager Brian Clough), Claire Lundberg is the literary scout of Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists (MGM/UA is co-producing the two-part film Hobbit, expected for 2012-2013, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien and directed by Guillermo del Toro), Anna Kokourina is the Director of Development of Fox International (co-producers of the next Michele Placido movie, based on the biography of the notorious Italian bandit Renato Vallanzasca). The representatives of two talent agencies are also attending: Josie Freedman of International Creative Management (the talent agency representing actors, directors and writers such as Al Pacino, Samuel L. Jackson, Woody Allen, Patricia Cornwell and Cormac McCarthy) and Steve Fisher of the Agency for Performing Arts (the agency that recently sold the film rights of the novels The opposite of love by Julie Buxman and Talent Thief by Alex Williams). Canada will be represented by Anthony Cianciotta, head of acquisitions of D Films and president of T.C. Film Marketing and Distribution. |
European scouts and producers at IBF 2010 Like every year, the publishers and agents attending the IBF will have a chance to get in touch with many interesting film companies from all over the world. Among the European guests of the IBF 2010, from the UK we’re expecting Caroline Cooper-Charles of Warp Films/C3 Pictures (forthcoming releases include Chris Morris film Four Lions and Paddy Considine's directorial debut Tyrannosaur), Rebecca Mark-Lawson of Lifesize Pictures, Sally Page from the Louise Allen-Jones Agency (scouting for several publishers and for Origin Pictures, the independent film and television production company founded by David M. Thompson, former head of BBC Films), Peter Blackstock of the Rosalind Ramsey Agency (scouting for Film 4 among others), Rob Kraitt of AP Watt - Literary, Film and Television Agents and Oliver Munson of the Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency. From France is arriving Isabelle Fauvel of Initiative Film, an agency specialized in audiovisual project development as a service to producers, script writers, directors, actors and artists agents, and from Switzerland is attending Nicholas Peart of NVA21. Sweden will be represented by Lars Pettersson of Fundament Film AB (actually developing the adaptation of Johan Theorin's book Skumtimmen (Echoes from the dead), the translation rights for which have been sold to twenty countries), Romania by David Alina of Castel Film (the largest full-service private studio and film Production Company in Romania), Russia by Maria Sharabidze of United Film Company (co-producers of Valerio Mieli’s Ten Winters) and Germany by the indiependent film company Integral Film and by Steffen Weihe of Pegasus GmbH - Theater- und Medienverlag, a film and theater agency who represents writers, screenwriters, directors and actors. |
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A record number of participants for the 2010 IBF – International Book Forum, the business area at the Torino International Book Fair that is dedicated to rights exchange for publishing and audiovisual materials for translation or adaptation. Over 800 people used the service, 120 of whom were invited as part of the collaboration with the National Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE). These professionals came from more than 30 countries (e.g. Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Mexico, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and the USA) and included literary agents, rights managers, producers and publishing scouts for cinema, television and multimedia productions. For the three days of the Forum (from Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 May) they occupied the 200 tables set up in the Lingotto Conference Centre, the hub of the b2b operations at the Torino International Book Fair, taking part in a total of 7500 meetings (1500 more than in 2009).Industry news
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