“It’s an ex­cel­lent fair”, said Chris Gold­berg, story editor at 20th Cen­tury Fox, about the IBF area in­side the Book Fair. Also Don La­vent­hall, Mo­tion Pic­ture and Te­le­vi­sion rights agent at Ha­rold Ober As­so­ciates, had a nice im­pres­sion: “There is a lot of in­te­res­ting work being done on the Ita­lian pu­blis­hing market”.

Fur­ther­more, IBF has hosted some ac­ti­vi­ties fo­cused on the Eu­ro­pean in­de­pen­dent pro­duc­tion and pu­blis­hing market, on new multi-plat­form dis­tri­bu­tive paths and on con­ver­gent co-pro­duc­tions, car­ried out with the Book Film Bridge col­la­bo­ra­tion.

The con­fe­rence con­ducted by Don La­vent­hall, Maria B. Camp­bell (pre­si­dent of Maria B. Camp­bell As­so­ciates li­terary agency), Kylee Doust (li­terary and movie pic­tures agent) and Ju­lian Friedman (joint ma­na­ging di­rector of Blake Friedman li­terary agency) was par­ti­cu­larly in­te­res­ting. They pre­sented their own ex­pe­ri­ences to the packed spec­ta­tors – mostly Ita­lian and for­eign pu­blis­hers – of­fe­ring them a real-life over­view from the pu­blis­hing, mo­tion pic­ture and au­dio­vi­sual Eu­ro­pean and Ame­rican market.

For three days, the IBF par­ti­ci­pants have been de­lighted with the ga­stro­nomic and wine ser­vices pro­vided by GoAsti, an ini­tia­tive of Con­sorzio Ope­ra­tori Tu­ri­stici Asti and Mon­fer­rato and Asti Pro­vince, who took care of the IBF Lounge area. The ca­te­ring ser­vice pro­posed to the ac­cre­dited pro­fes­sio­nals of­fered the best dishes and the ex­cel­lence from Terre d’Asti, in co­ope­ra­tion with the An­tica Grap­peria Bosso, his­to­rical Pied­mont rea­lity that ce­le­brated 120 years of tra­di­tion, in­tro­du­cing the Bosso Prize, awarded this year to the ita­lian writer Giorgio Fa­letti.