The candidatures for Milan Pitch 2026 are open, the most important appointment for aspiring writers and writers, screenwriters and screenwriters who by 31 July will be able to present their unpublished works and participate free of charge in the call to win development grants for a total of 26,000 euros.
The event promoted by ALMED – High School in Media, Communication and Show of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and the Civic School of Cinema Lucino Visconti of Fondazione Milano Civic Schools, with the support of Fondazione Cariplo, SAE Institute, Corax Social Media Company and ALF Premi Cinema, has reached its eighth edition and is open to candidates and candidates under 40 who have obtained a degree or a diploma, or are enrolled in cinema, master’s.
Applications are completely free and cover four categories: Cinema, TV series, Narrative Junior (Kids, Middle Grade, Young Adult and Graphic Novel) and Narrative Adults (Narrative Fiction and Graphic Novel). A winning project will be selected for each category.
The previewed prizes are 9,000 gross euros each for Cinema and TV series and 4,000 gross euros each for Narrative Junior and Narrative Adults. Winners and winners will also be awarded a professional tutor who will follow the development of the project for six months.
Projects must be sent by 23.59 of 31 July 2026, filling out the form at the link https://forms.gle/rpF8gNArF4tuVDmC9, loading the materials anonymously with the required documentation.
The finalists and finalists of this eighth edition will be announced by 30 September 2026. The closing day of Milan Pitch 2026 will be held on Thursday, November 12 at the Palazzo del Cinema Anteo in Milan, where selected authors and authors will present their projects in front of the representatives of the main Italian publishing and audiovisual realities.
Milano Pitch 2026: il progetto
Milan Pitch was launched thanks to the StoryLab project, born in March 2018 with Fondazione Cariplo, to give impulse and support to the audiovisual and publishing industry in Lombardy, thanks to bands, funding, job training and meetings in support of authors and industry.
In these 7 years Milan Pitch has created connections, opportunities and projects for young authors and authors allowing them to present about 140 projects unpublished to one hundred large companies of publishing and audiovisual, widening scholarships for more than 170 thousand Euros (also counting the grants of Development Grant of the Storylab project) and involving exceptional judges like Claudio Bisio, Cristiana Capotondi, Manlio Castagna.
From the activities carried out with StoryLab and Milan Pitch were born two large productions, a series of eight-pointed TVs for Rai, Estranei, presented a few days ago at the Milan Film Fest and broadcast in autumn on RaiDue, and a film for the cinema that will be distributed in a few months, written and directed by a young author, Lorenzo Chierici.
From the various years of Milan Pitch are also emerged young screenwriters and screenwriters who have then developed interesting projects with production houses and networks, like Mara Perbellini, who wrote a Disney series and an original Rai series (two seasons), and Claudio Benedetti, who signed Sandokan for Lux Vide.
Many (more than 20) the novels presented at Milan Pitch and then published by the main Italian publishing houses (Mondadori, Piemme Battello a Vapore, De Agostini, Giunti, Longanesi, Newton Compton, etc.): among these Dadieci (Piemme 2020) by Saschia Masini (now reached his fourth novel), I hear you (de Agostini 2020) by Valentina Tor.
Milan Pitch, part of a group of activities aimed at the development of a real audiovisual district in Milan, is directed by Professor Armando Fumagalli (director of MISP – Master in International Screenwriting and Production of the Catholic University and for many years consultant of Lux Vide) and Professor Minnie Ferrara (director of the Civic School of Cinema Luchino Visconti, Fondazione Milano).
For information and registration: https://milanopitch.it/
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