Minerva Pictures, a privately owned company headquartered in Rome, Italy, functions as a tier 2 media tech buyer. Founded in 1953 by Antonio Curti, the company, with approximately 90 employees, reported $36.7M in revenue as of 2024. Operating as an independent Italian film production, distribution, and digital publishing company, it specializes in movies and sound recording. The company expanded its operations under Ermanno Curti and Gianluca Curti, which led to internationalization and the acquisition of film libraries. In 2019, Santo Versace joined as a corporate partner alongside Chief Executive Officer Gianluca Curti. Minerva Pictures acts as an institutional safeguard of Italian cinematic history, accumulating an intellectual property library of over 2,500 titles, including auteur cinema and genre films such as cult horror, giallo, and spaghetti westerns. The studio's contemporary original production catalog encompasses feature films, documentaries, and episodic television, with works including the Paramount+ original series Miss Fallaci, Eran Riklis's Reading Lolita in Tehran, and the biographical docuseries Marta – Murder at the Sapienza Campus.

2024 Revenue

Founded

1953

Headcount

82

Headquarters

Italy

Primary Segment

Entertainment content rights

Ownership

Privately Owned

News Summary:

On March 23, 2026, Minerva Pictures took on international sales for the feature documentary *A War On Women*, a Hot Docs title exploring the feminist movement in Iran from the 1960s to the present day. Previously, on March 18, Minerva Pictures concluded deals at Hong Kong’s Filmart (March 17-20), selling Giulio Base’s religious drama *Judas’ Gospel* to Media Nikke in South Korea in partnership with its sister company TVCO. Earlier, on February 12, the company secured worldwide sales rights for the Chilean punk rock dramedy *Matapanki*, the debut feature of Diego ‘Mapache’ Fuentes, ahead of its European premiere at the Berlinale. This followed the January 16, 2026 designation of Kleber Mendonça Filho's *L’agente segreto* as "Film of the Critic" by the National Union of Italian Film; Minerva Pictures distributes the film, which opened in theaters on January 29, 2026.

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