PiTCH!

2022 edition

2022 shortlist

Projects without producers

Hikiko – Alice Ley

La Dernière Course – Alexis Jeannot

Lip – Camille Gainnet

Ma mère est une star –
Gabriel Pinto Monteiro

Mon Combat – Taylan Barman

Noseville (en basse saison) –
Colin Cressent

Putains de Papillons – Christophe Clin

SLAMopéra – Vinciane Zech

Projects with producers

C'est tout ce qu'on aura – Pauline Beugnies

Helter Skelter – Paul Vincent de Lestrade

Les immortelles – Maïa Descamps

Miungu –
Aline Parmentier et Virginie Poncelet

0FF – Benjamin Dessy et Lionel Delhaye

Wallifornia Dreamin' –
Daphné Huynh et Lucy Mattot




Low-budget productions

All The Time – Amelie Derlon Cordina

Il pleut dans la maison –
Paloma Sermon-Daï

Kouté Vwa (écouter les voix) –
Maxime Jean-Baptiste

Vitrival Travail –
Baptiste Bogaert et Noëlle Bastin

Sauvons les meubles – Catherine Cosme

Here is the booklet

2022 winners

Congratulations again to all our PiTCH! 2022 winners!

ASA and SACD prize

 Ma mère est une star by Gabriel Pinto Monteiro

Triodos Bank prize

SLAMopéra by Vinciane Zech

Sabam for Culture prize

Helter Skelter by Paul Vincent de Lestrade, produced by Need Productions

screen.brussels prize

All The Time by Amelie Derlon Cordina, produced by Matching Socks Venture



Our reading commitee

Alexis van Stratum
– chairman

Director, actor and trainer, graduate of the Antwerp Conservatory (Theatre) and INSAS Brussels (Directing).

Virginie Gourmel

After studying at INSAS, Virginie Gourmel directed her first short film, which she also photographed.

Raphaël Baudet

Graduating in 2014 from the Institute for Broadcasting Arts, in Belgium, for a master's degree in directing and then screenwriting.

Sarah Carlot

Writer and director Sarah Carlot Jaber grew up in the Middle East and now works in Brussels.

Maxime Pistorio

Director and scriptwriter, sensitive to comedy and fantasy, Maxime Pistorio likes to take a light-hearted approach to heavy subjects.

Coline Grando

Coline Grando graduated with a Master's degree in Directing from the IAD in 2015, with her graduation movie Les Saisons, a short fiction film.

Who is Isabelle Fauvel,
pitching trainer?

A producer by career, Isabelle Fauvel has been working in the development sector for almost thirty years, developing an original and innovative approach.

After six years in production, during which she produced or co-produced several feature films, including Leolo by Jean-Claude Lauzon (official competition Cannes 1992), she created Initiative Film in 1993, the first company entirely dedicated to development. Exploring a very broad range of missions linked to the gestation and emergence of talent and projects, it is the privileged interlocutor of scriptwriters, directors and/or producers, supporting French and international feature films, on a one-off or long-term basis.

Initiative Film’s activities revolve, among others, around spotting books and talent, writing consultations, story editing and sound advice throughout the creative development process, from the initial idea to the shooting version and sometimes right through to post-production.

Who is Hakim Mao,
pitching trainer?

A native of Agadir, Morocco, he trained in editing and post-production for an Advanced Technician Certificate before joining the Ecole National Supérieur Louis-Lumière, where he experimented with image techniques, writing and directing.

Since 2016, he has been working with Isabelle Fauvel at Initiative Film, a development consultant company, as a script consultant and taking part in international workshops and labs (Valletta Film Lab, Jump-in Poitiers, Short Film Corner, French Institute) as well as scouting books, projects and talent.
 

His first short film Babtou Fragile is currently being screened at festivals such as Pink Screens, Chéries-Chéris and Black Nights Tallin, and his next short, Idiot Fish, will be broadcast on Arte in 2022.

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.

Alexis van Stratum – président

Alexis van Stratum is a director, actor and trainer who graduated from the Antwerp Conservatory (Theater) and INSAS Brussels (Directing). Author and director of shows including Hysteria (performed over 50 times in Belgium), director of Isabelle Sorente's Hard Copy (2015, Théâtre Marni), author and director of the biographical musical Kafka, les années Felice (2015, Théâtre de la Vie, revived in March 2017). He has directed and co-written several films, including the shorts Les enfants de coeur (2001), Classes Vertes (2008) and Albertine (2014) and has won various awards at festivals around the world and been broadcast on television (Arte, RTBF, TV 5 Monde, Canal+ and channels in Spain, Switzerland, the USA and Japan). He also teaches acting in front of the camera (ART-T, côté village, comedien.be), one-man shows (ART-T, comedien.be, les ateliers d'art contemporain de Bruxelles) and directing (Raindance and ESRA Bruxelles). Through themes such as love, old age, neurosis, loss, toxic relationships and scapegoating, Alexis searches for the fine line between drama and humor.

Virginie Gourmel

After studying at INSAS, Virginie Gourmel directed her first short film, which she also photographed. Shot on out-of-date film, it won numerous awards abroad, as did the second Stagman, made in Poland. Before shooting her first feature Cavale, she worked as a cinematographer on various short films, documentaries, artist films and fashion films. She is currently developing her second feature, Commotion, with Hélicotronc.

Raphaël Baudet

Graduating in 2014 from the IAD, in Belgium, for a master's degree in directing and then screenwriting, he wrote his thesis on comedy series and directed a film called Galia selected in several festivals. Prior to this, he obtained a master's degree in law and worked at various jobs with the aim of becoming a screenwriter. From shopkeeper to teacher in rehabilitation classes, from cook to chess teacher, from waiter to fishmonger, from alarm salesman to cultural animator in ZEP, from actor-child coach to assistant director, it is a real field study consciously organized over several years. He has never ceased to improve his writing skills through various master classes (Nicola Lusuardi, John Truby, etc.) and writing projects with failures and successes. Raphaël works for various media (RTBF, Arte, M6) and is currently developing series and a feature film with various productions (4 Mecs en baskets, Iota production and Ferly Animation).

Sarah Carlot

Writer and director Sarah Carlot Jaber grew up in the Middle East and now works in Brussels. With a diploma in directing from the IAD and a Master's degree specializing in gender studies, she is interested in themes where these two disciplines meet. Her third short film, La Protagoniste, is currently playing at a number of festivals. It is a meta-comedy that questions representations of female characters. Sarah is currently in post-production on her next short film, Olga, while writing her first feature film, Tell al Zataar (The Thyme Hill).

Maxime Pistorio

Maxime Pistorio is a director and screenwriter. Sensitive to comedy and fantasy, he likes to approach heavy themes with a light touch. His latest short film, Green-Fit, just premiered at the Alpe d'Huez Comedy Film Festival. He is currently working on his first feature film, Belladonna, a surreal and cruel comedy. He is also an actor, director and artistic director of the VKRS music video festival.

Coline Grando

Coline Grando graduated from IAD in 2015 with a master's degree in filmmaking, with her graduation film Les Saisons, a short fiction film. She directed her first documentary La Place de l'homme in 2017, produced by the Brussels Video Center. In 2019, she will continue to explore abortion, but this time from the point of view of the doctors who perform it, with Les mains des femmes, commissioned by the Laic Federation of Family Planning Center and the BVC. She is currently working on post-production for her next film, Le Balai Libéré, which looks at self-management and the current working conditions of two generations of cleaners.

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.