Venice Market Chief Pascal Diot Says He’s Not Affected by New Toronto Market: ‘Not What the Industry Wants Now’

Venice's indie market, called Venice Production Bridge, kicked off Sept. 4 with 4,000 attendees 

Venice’s informal indie market, the Venice Production Bridge, kicked off Sept. 4 with some 4,000 film industry executives — almost half of which are producers — in attendance on the Lido, where 37 feature-length fiction and documentary projects, and 14 immersive projects, will be on display at the VPB’s gap-financing platform.

A new addition to the calendar is the Toronto Intl. Film Festival’s high-profile film market, known as TIFF: The Market, which debuts Sept. 10, the day after VPB ends. It could expand the fierce competition for prime film premieres between the Venice and Toronto fests into the film market space.

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