More than a decade since becoming a key component in the Venice Production Bridge , as the Lido’s industry arm is known, the Venice Gap-Financing Market continues to offer fertile ground for financiers, distributors, sales agents, streamers and other industry professionals to preview buzzy new projects looking to complete their financing.

Pascal Diot, head of the Venice Production Bridge, says it was exactly that, well, gap in the market that he first set out to fill.

“When I created this Venice Gap-Financing Market 12 years ago, there was no such kind of co-production market at that time,” Diot tells Variety . Similar industry events, he says, were largely focused on projects in development, though the longtime producer recognized from first-hand experience “that it was also very

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