2023 edition

PiTCH!

2023 edition

2023 shortlist

Projects in development

A bas le soleil – Lucien Lepoutre

Comment tuer ma fille ? – Nathalie Van Tongelen

Ducasse – William Samaha

Has Been – Jérôme Hamays

Il faut tout un village – Julien Demarche

Le Monde comme il va – Nicolas Priels

Nagori ou la Nostalgie du futur –
Amelia Nanni et Django Schrevens

Qui m'a enlevé ? – Nicolas Monfort et Philippe Malempré

Low-budget productions

13 en colère – Tom Adjibi

Avant / Après – Manoël Dupont

Fanfan & Matilde – Tom Boccara et Wided Ouassale

On vous croit – Arnaud Dufeys et Charlotte Devillers

Here is the booklet



Our reading committee

Maïa Descamps

Born in 1991 in Lille, France, Maïa Descamps graduated from a master's degree in filmmaking at IAD in 2015 with her graduation film D'homme à homme.

Gabrielle Borile

A screenwriter for film and television, Gabrielle Borile has written numerous feature films

Xavier Vairé

After working as an audiovisual lawyer and then as an executive producer (documentary, fiction, cinema), Xavier Vairé has been a fiction and animation scriptwriter for ten years.

Micha Wald

Micha Wald is a director, screenwriter, producer at Fox the Fox and film professor at INSAS.

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.

Maïa Descamps

Born in 1991 in Lille, France, Maïa Descamps graduated from a master's degree in filmmaking at IAD in 2015 with her graduation film D'homme à homme. After graduating, she worked on various series projects for the RTBF, as co-writer or consultant. She directed her second short film in 2022, Les huîtres, which received multiple prices and was nominated for a Magritte in 2023. She is currently writing her first feature-length film, which received writing assistance. She is also preparing a short film and a series that she is co-writing with Laurent Brandenbourger.

Gabrielle Borile

A screenwriter for film and television, Gabrielle Borile has written numerous feature films for Belgian directors such as Benoît Lamy and French directors such as Laurent Heynemann, Philomène Esposito and Luc Béraud. She has taught screenwriting at ULB and IAD.

Xavier Vairé

After working as an audiovisual lawyer and then as an executive producer (documentary, fiction, cinema), Xavier Vairé has been a fiction and animation scriptwriter for ten years. At last, a real job!

Micha Wald

Micha Wald is a director, screenwriter, producer at Fox the Fox and film professor at INSAS. His short film Alice & Moi won 115 international awards (Critics' Week at Cannes, Locarno Festival, Montreal, Audience Award at Clermont-Ferrand, Best European Short Film, etc.). He has directed two feature films: Voleurs de Chevaux, selected for Critics' Week in Cannes and Les folles aventures de Simon Konianski. His third feature, L'île de la demoiselle, will be shot in 2024.

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.