Meet & Write

Come and share your project!

26.06.2025

A golden opportunity to form creative duos!

Find more about the concept

Applications

The call for applications is open until Sunday, May 4th!

You can register via our form.

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What is Meet & Write?

Meet & Write aims to bring together screenwriters and directors to find the right person to work with on a joint feature film project.

The aim is to move the project forward so that it is ripe for submission to the CCA’s writing assistance program.

Who can apply?

The participant must be a Belgian resident and able to express themself in French or English.

The participant must have already written or directed at least one work broadcast in festivals, television, platforms or cinema.

The participant confirms that they are available on the day of the speed dating event.

The participant is aware that making a feature-length film is a long-term process and a human adventure. Forming a duo is not a commitment to be taken lightly.

Who can attend?

Directors and screenwriters looking for a partner to launch their feature film project are invited to apply.

A maximum of ten screenwriters and ten directors will be selected for the speed-dating session.

Three steps

01.

Speed-dating

A meeting between screenwriters and directors on Thursday, June 26th 2025 at Industry Corner at BRIFF. Each participant will have the opportunity to chat for 15 minutes with each of the other participants. The meeting will be followed by a drink to continue the discussion informally.

02.

Coaching

Four coaching sessions will follow over the course of 2025/2026, in preparation for the pitch. Two sessions will be dedicated to the script, while the third will focus on realization intentions. A final session will prepare projects for the BRIFF PiTCH! event.

03.

Taking part in PiTCH!

Project presentation to producers and other professionals at BRIFF 2026.

Our partners

The Meet & Write event is an initiative launched by the ARRF and the ASA, supported by the BRIFF, the SABAM and the UPFF+.

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.