PiTCH!

2021 edition

2021 shortlist

Emerging projects

Wallifornia Dreamin' – Daphné Huynh et Lucy Mattot

Paradise – Elisabeth Silveiro

In vivo – Maud Carpentier et Boris Tilquin

Black Moon Tango – Georges Vanev et Emilie Franco

L'homme de chambre – Diane Ntahimpera

Caniche Killer – Romain Pradaut

Cloë jolis monstres – Pauline Roque

Secret de famille – Farah Youssouf

Piège – Simon Heymans

Tell al Zaatar (La colline du thym) – Sarah Carlot Jaber

Advanced projects

Le rocher des grands malades – Caroline Bruyr

L'or rouge – Mathieu Volpe

Une place à part – Anne Lévy-Morelle

Derrière la porte –
Julien Demarche, Stefan Cuvelier et Adrien François

Voir le loup – Cécile Rittweger

Quand ce sera la fin du monde on sera riches – Rémi Allier

Here is the booklet

2021 winners

Congratulations again to all our PiTCH! 2021 winners!

ARRF prize

 Cloë jolis monstres by Pauline Roque

ASA prize

Wallifornia Dreamin’ by Daphné Huynh et Lucy Mattot

SACD prize

Tell a Zaatar (La colline du thym) by Sarah Carlot Jaber

SABAM prize

Quand ce sera la fin du monde on sera riche by Rémi Allier

screen.brussels prize

Black Moon Tango by Georges Vanev et Emilie Franco

L’homme de chambre by Diane Ntahimpera

Triodos Bank prize

L’or rouge by Mathieu Volpe

Who is Claire Dixsault,
pitching trainer?

Claire Dixsaut has been teaching pitching to movie, audiovisual and multimedia professionals for twenty-three years.

Claire Dixsaut teaches a pitch course at the Audiovisual National Institute. She works with production and broadcasting companies. She coaches the Series Creation classes at La Fémis. She works with film and audiovisual institutions (Film France, The Screenwriters’ Guild, local audiovisual centers) and festivals.

Claire Dixsaut was a broadcaster in France (Arte, Canal +) before becoming head of international co-productions at Turner-TimeWarner. She left television to become director of web productions at Microsoft. She then set up her own web production and distribution company, with offices in Seoul and Tokyo.

A former editor-in-chief of La Gazette des Scénaristes, she is now a screenwriter and author, with fifteen books published.



Our reading commitee

Anouchka Walewyk – chairman

After studying Cinema and Literature & Arts at the University of Paris 7, Anouchka Walewyk moved to Belgium where she obtained a Master's degree in Screenwriting from the IAD in 2013.

Laurent Brandenbourger

After completing his studies at the IAD, Laurent Brandenbourger wrote two short films and a feature film Petites misères with Philippe Bonn.

Maxime Bultot

Born in eastern Belgium in 1988, Maxime Bultot trained at INSAS (Brussels) before working as an assistant director.

Véronique Jadin

Véronique Jadin has just directed her first feature film, L'employée du mois, a delightful and immoral black comedy with a stellar cast.

Monique Mbeka Phoba

Monique Mbeka Phoba is a screenwriter, director and producer.

Laurent Micheli

Born in Brussels in 1982 and trained at INSAS in dramatic interpretation, Laurent Micheli worked as an actor and theatre director for ten years.

Our partners

The PiTCH! event is an initiative launched by the ARRF and the ASA, organized in collaboration with the BRIFF and in partnership with the SACD, screen.brussels, Sabam for culture, UPFF, Elles Font Des Films, Wallimage and Triodos Bank. 

Writers who contributed to the project: Véronique Jadin, Fred Castadot, Aurélie Wijnants, Monique Mbeka Phoba, Laurent Scheid, Cédric Bourgeois, Pablo Munoz Gomez et Gabriel Vanderpas.

Anouchka Walewyk – chairwoman

After studying Cinéma and Lettres & Arts at the Université Paris 7, Anouchka Walewyk moved to Belgium, where she obtained a Master's degree in Screenwriting from the IAD in 2013. She then collaborated with various directors (Coline Grando, Virginie Gourmel, Olias Barco) on the writing of short and feature films, before specializing in the writing of series and web-series. She is co-writer of the web-series Frangines (scheduled for broadcast in late 2021) and is currently co-writing the series Syndrome for RTBF.

Laurent Brandenbourger

After completing his studies at the IAD, Laurent Brandenbourger wrote two short films and a feature-length film, Petites misères, with Philippe Bonn. Under the successive direction of Jean Van Hamme and Alain Corneau, the duo also wrote the adaptation of La Marque jaune. They continued to write for feature films and animated shorts. His meeting with Nabil Ben Yadir led to the writing of two films: Sortie de clown and Les barons. The following year, he wrote the book inspired by the film (Editions Mijade) as well as two other screenplays with Nabil Ben Yadir, including Dode hoek. At the same time, he takes part as a consultant in the Grand Nord workshop, in film commissions for the French Community and works as a script doctor on various projects. Also with Nabil Ben Yadir, he wrote the play Guantanamouk. He also collaborated on three other feature-length films: Witz with Martine Doyen, Seule à mon mariage with Marta Bergman and Noura rêve with Hinde Boujemaa. He also assists IAD students in writing their final films. Finally, he is currently working on an RTBF series (Ultra, Artémis Productions).

Maxime Bultot

Born in eastern Belgium in 1988, Maxime Bultot trained at INSAS (Brussels) before working as an assistant director. His first novel, L'année la plus chaude, came out in April 2021, under the banner of La Grenade, the new label of JC Lattès. At the same time, he is developing his fiction and documentary film projects.

Véronique Jadin

Véronique Jadin has just directed her first feature-length film, L'Employée du mois, a delightful, immoral black comedy with a stellar cast. The sequel is in preparation. She's always loved comedy, and her first short film was written for Tsilla Chelton, the awful Auntie Danièle, to whom she also devoted a documentary. Comedy, yes, but political comedy. The world is changing and fiction must precede or even provoke these changes, not follow them. That is her ten-year plan.

Monique Mbeka Phoba

Monique Mbeka Phoba is a screenwriter, director and producer. Trained at Ateliers Varan, she first directed a dozen documentaries, broadcast on RTBF, ARTE, France 5, TV5 and several African television stations. She then branched out into fiction, enrolling for a master's degree in screenwriting at the IAD. This led to her first short film, Sœur Oyo, inspired by her mother's childhood in a religious boarding school in colonial Congo. She is currently putting the finishing touches to her first feature film, Wanilo, co-produced by Belgium, France and Benin. Monique Mbeka Phoba has also designed a masterclass on the theme of colonization in Belgian cinema, which, since 2015, has been presented at ULB, UCL, IAD, ISELP, Bozar, Pianofabriek, Festival Elles Tournent, Festival International de Cinéma de Kinshasa and soon at Ghent University. Monique Mbeka Phoba is also a member of the Belgian SACD Committee, EFDF (Elles Font Des Films) and ARPI (Association des Réalisateurs-trices et Producteur-trice Indépendant-e-s).

Laurent Micheli

Born in Brussels in 1982 and trained at INSAS in dramatic interpretation, Laurent Micheli worked as an actor and theater director for ten years. He then shot his first feature film, Even lovers get the blues, released in 2017. The film waś selected́ at numerous international festivals and received numerous awards, as well as two Magritte du cinéma nominations in 2018. His second feature, Lola vers la mer, will be released in December 2019 in Belgium and France, then in around ten countries. It has also been selected for numerous festivals around the world, winning some twenty awards and two Magritte awards, and has been nominated for a César for Best Foreign Film in 2020. He also graduated from the Atelier Scénario at La Fémis in 2016, and won the Émergence workshop in 2018. Laurent is currently writing his third feature film, Nino dans la nuit, based on the novel by Capucine and Simon Johannin, produced by Wrong Men and Haut & Court.

Thibaut Wohlfahrt

Screenwriter and director of several short films, Thibaut Wohlfahrt has made a name for himself, notably with the Belgian-Lebanese film Bruxelles-Beyrouth and Ma Gueule, which won the Magritte award for best fiction short in 2023. He has just released his first feature, Les Pas Perdus, co-directed with Roda Fawaz, which has been selected for several international festivals, including the La Rochelle Fiction Festival.

Julien Henry

After a more than ten years experience directing television, mini-dramas, commercials and music videos, Julien turned to storytelling and exploring the game with the award-winning short films LYNX and La pote d'un pote. He then took a detour into feature-length documentaries with Se crasher pour exister, supported by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and co-produced by the RTBF, Betv and RTS, which received several nominations and awards. Julien is currently working on the series La pote d'un pote (20x3 minutes) again with Salomé Dewaels and Mara Taquin. He is also directing a comedy feature film called Wallifornia Dreamin' with writers and actors Daphné Huynh and Lucy Mattot, produced by Kozak and currently in development. At the same time, Julien is developing his feature film Bangers, supported by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the Aquitaine region, Media Slate, TIPIK, etc. and produced by Tarantula and KIDAM in France.

Martine Doyen

Brussels-based screenwriter and director Martine Doyen teaches and also works as a script consultant for various organizations and productions. Trained in the visual arts, communications, writing and film direction, after starting out at RTBF as a director of cultural sequences, she wrote and directed four short and two feature-length fiction films, including Pâques au Tison, Grand Prix at Clermont Ferrand (2001) and KOMMA, selected for Critics' Week in Cannes (2006). A creative jack-of-all-trades, hardly a day goes by without her tinkering with something - videos, photos, drawings, paintings and more. In 2022, her first picture book, Alfreda Hitchcock & Sisters, published by La Lettre Volée, was released, based on the Instagram account of the same name.