Gaëtan Bruel, president of the France's National Cinema Center, said film and TV production will be undercut as YouTube and social media platforms increasingly seize the attention of European audiences.

“There is a vibrant local production market, which is always appealing,” Raj Singh, CEO of Media Capital Technologies, told the MIA Market on Tuesday.

“We have to take risks,” Domingo Corral, a producer of Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo's gay epic and Netflix's award season contender, told the MIA Market in Rome.

Marco Bassetti discussed the new $8.5 billion super indie at the MIA Market in Rome after it scaled up by adding distribution and sports to its content offering.

The German filmmaker told the MIA Market in Rome a "failure" with ‘World War Z’ opened the way to an eventual Oscar-winning ‘Conclave’ collaboration.

The comments by Giuseppe Abbamonte, director for media policy for the European Commission, at the MIA Market in Rome came amid calls for ways foreign players can help finance local films and TV series.

Niki Byrne’s debut about a young math genius and also starring Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson bowed at the Toronto Film Festival.