New call of the Book Adaptation Rights Market

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On January 19^th (through May 25^th), the call opens for the 11th edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market for publishers and literary agents, organized by the Venice Production Bridge, to be held from 4^th to 6^st September 2026, as part of the 83^rd  Venice International Film Festival (September 2 – 12, 2026) within La Biennale di Venezia. The Venice Production Bridge is co-financed by the European Commission’s MEDIA Fund.

The Book Adaptation Rights Market will offer up to 30 international publishing houses and literary agencies, plus those invited as part of the VPB FOCUS 2026, a dedicated area to meet the producers registered to the Venice International Film Festival through one-to-one meetings. The winners of the call will be announced in June.

Compared to other events dedicated to publishing within the context of Film Festivals, the Book Adaptation Rights Market will enable the invited publishers to propose their entire catalogue for film adaptations, rather than focusing on a single book or volume.

The producers purchasing their Industry Gold Accreditation through the Venice International Film Festival will be entitled to request 30-minute one-to-one meetings with the selected publishers and literary agents via our website in the BARM dedicated area (veniceproductionbridge.org).

The meetings will allow to the publishers to foster lasting relationships and of course to make deals on the adaptation of novels, drama, children’s literature, short stories, comics, graphic novels, essays, and biographies. With this event the Venice Production Bridge renews its vocation to encourage the development and production of international and European projects across a range of audio-visual forms. A tailor-made initiative of this kind requests a real confidentiality for the producers and the partners already in place. A first Project line-up will be sent to selected potential producers in order to allow them to register to this rights market.

The Book Adaptation Rights Market brochure, detailing each publishing house and literary agency selected and their new titles, will be sent to producers in July 2026 to support them to decide which titles match better their production house before requesting the 30-minute one-to-one meetings. The VPB Office will set up these meetings in accordance with the availability of the participants and meetings slots. Each publisher and literary agent will receive a personalised meeting schedule a few days before the event.

The Book Adaptation Rights Market terms and conditions are as follows:

· The publishing house or literary agency must be the audio-visual rights representative of the titles proposed for adaptation within the BARM;
· The publishing house or literary agency must have and provide a catalogue with a significant amount of titles and of different authors;
· The proposed titles should be bestsellers or brand new, yet to be published, with strong potential for screen adaptation;
· There must be there an English translation or a logline translation of each title proposed.

This call is open to European and International publishers for the following publication topics:

• Children’s and Young Adult Literature (general)
• Comics
• Fiction (general)
• Graphic Novels
• Non-Fiction (general)