MIA Market Unveils 2026 Program, Lineup For Digital Era

MIA Market, the international film and TV event set to run in Rome from Oct. 19 to 23, has unveiled its 2026 programming lineup.

The market’s 12th edition will include a discussion on producing with artificial intelligence tools with Mediawan exec Max Wiedemann, AiMation founder Tom Paton and Al Munteanu, CEO of BriskPace Studios. And Shorties Studio founder Kelly Luegenbiehl, Sky Studios Italia director Emanuele Marchesi, Fremantle distribution exec Jamie Lynn, Sony Pictures Television’s Andrew Plotkin, and Marike Muselaers, a financing and coproduction exec at Nordisk Film Group, will talk about finding audiences in an industry increasingly impacted by an emerging creator economy and social media.

MIA Market plans conversations with Conclave filmmaker Edward Berger, Senna director Asif Kapadia, Dalton’s Dream filmmaker Kim Longinotto and Trevor Roth, COO and head of development at Roddenberry Entertainment. The event also booked a panel on horror reshaping the film industry, to include IFC/Shudder’s Rachael Labes, Toronto Film Festival programmer Peter Kuplowsky and Wonder Pictures CEO Andrea Romeo, and other discussions around vertical dramas, animation content distribution strategies and movie scores for film biopics, documentaries and other audiovisual storytelling.

And amid fast-paced industry change, MIA plans a panel entitled Can Excellence Survive the Mainstream? to consider the impact of algorithms and audience data on content diversit, and with contributions from Spanish producers Belén Atienza, Domingo Corral, Fernando Bovaira and María Zamora.

MIA 2026 will also feature as part of its market 104 projects from 43 countries to feature as part of industry programs like the Co-Production & Gap Financing Market and Work-in-Progress sessions. The 12th edition of MIA is supported by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and ICE – Italian Trade Agency, and has backing from Creative Europe MEDIA and the Italian Ministry of Culture.