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The new edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market
From 4-6 September at the Venice Production Bridge as part of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
Book Adaptation Rights Market
The 11th edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market (September 4th – 6th, 2026), organized as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place at the Hotel Excelsior at the Lido di Venezia, during the forthcoming 83rd Venice International Film Festival (September 2nd – 12th, 2026).
Following the call which was launched on January 19th, the Book Adaptation Rights Market has selected 30 international publishing houses and literary agencies.
The Venice Production Bridge will provide a dedicated area to meet the producers registered to the Venice International Film Festival through one-to-one meetings. The meetings will allow to foster lasting relationships and to make deals on the adaptation of novels, dramas, children’s literature, short stories, comics, graphic novels, essays, and biographies.
The Book Adaptation Rights Market will enable the invited publishers to propose their entire catalogue for film adaptation, rather than focusing on a single book, as opposed to other events dedicated to publishing within the scope of film festivals. A brochure featuring all the publishers and literary agents, along with their new titles and catalogues will be sent to all registered producers beforehand.
The selected publishers
The 30 publishers and literary agents invited to this year’s event of the Book Adaptation Rights Market are:
Alt Autores Editorial (Spain)
Andrew Nurnberg Associates (England)
BAO Publishing (Italy)
Bonnier Rights Finland (Finland)
BookEnds Literary (United States of America)
Catrina Wessels Rights Management (South Africa)
De Agostini Libri (Italy)
Editorial Anagrama S.A.U. (Spain)
Gaeb & Eggers Literary Agency (Germany)
Gallucci Editore (Italy)
GeMS - Gruppo Editoriale Mauri Spagnol (Italy)
Giulio Einaudi Editore (Italy)
Giunti Editore / Bompiani (Italy)
Grand Agency (Sweden)
Gruppo Feltrinelli (Italy)
Klett-Cotta Verlag (Germany)
Librairie Arthème Fayard (France)
MalaTesta Literary Agency (Italy)
Matriochkas, Books & Films Creative Bureau (France)
MertinWitt Literary Agency (Germany)
Mondadori Business Unit Ragazzi, Piemme, Sperling & Kupfer, Mondadori Electa (Italy)
Mondadori Libri SpA (Italy)
Otago Literary Agency (Italy)
Peters Fraser and Dunlop (United Kingdom)
Rizzoli (Italy)
Rowohlt Verlag GmbH - Film Rights Agency (Germany)
S. Fischer Verlag GmbH (Germany)
Susanna Lea Associates (France)
The Italian Literary Agency (Italy)
Topipittori Srl (Italy)
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Ever since its first edition, the Book Adaptation Rights Market has met with great success as proven by the publishers’ requests to participate again in this event, as well as by a growing demand from the producers looking for original intellectual properties (IP).
The new brochure that features all the details of the invited publishers and literary agents for this year’s edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market will be available soon on the section “VPB Brochures Downloads’’ of the Venice Production Bridge Website: www.veniceproductionbridge.org
The Venice Production Bridge is co-financed by the European Commission’s MEDIA Programme.
