Italian executive Marco Chimenz, who recently stepped down as co-managing director of Paris-based pan-European production and sales company Federation Studios, has been tapped to serve as strategic consultant for the upcoming edition of Rome’s MIA Market.
Chimenz has been appointed by MIA to boost the international profile of the event dedicated to international TV series, animation, feature films and documentaries, “and to ensure greater alignment with the global evolution of the industry,” according to a statement.
His appointment was announced on Friday in a joint statement by the presidents of Italy’s motion picture association ANICA and Italian TV producers’ association APA, Alessandro Usai and Chiara Sbarigia.
Now in its twelfth edition, MIA – the acronym stands for Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo, which translates to International Audiovisual Market – has experienced steady growth in recent years, with more than 2,800 participants from 64 countries in attendance last year.
Usai and Sbarigia commented: “We are very pleased to have promptly reached out to Marco as soon as we learned of his departure from Federation, before he took on another major corporate role.”
“We are confident that, thanks to his extensive international experience, his enthusiasm and his strategic vision, he will be able to carry out this role with the same passion that has distinguished him in the past in managing national and European industry events and association meetings,” they added.
Chimenz’s involvement, they went on to note, will help the 2026 edition of MIA — Italy’s only national film and TV industry market – “to achieve new and significant milestones.”
Prior to joining Federation in 2023, Chimenz spent more than twenty years at Italy’s prominent ITV-owned company Cattleya, the shingle behind “Gomorrah” and other hit TV series and films as one of its three founding partners, alongside Riccardo Tozzi and Giovanni Stabilini. He is also a former president of the European Producers Club.
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