PiTCH!

2020 edition

2020 shortlist

Emerging projects

Droit au but – Nabil Rian

Hamza Mercury –
Monir Ait-hamou et Ish Ait-hamou

Les méduses – Ely Chevillot

A la recherche de la bite magique –
Nina Vanspranghe

Belladone – Maxime Pistorio

La récolte des dattes – Amel Benaïssa

Silence – Carol Van Hemelrijck

Maïa – Lou du Pontavice

Transparency – Noha Choukrallah

À l'année prochaine – Pierre Collet

Adavanced projects

Petite Reine – Jonas Adeski

Le dernier des dinosaures – Sacha Feiner

Bagarre – Catherine Cosme

Le Syndrome des amours passées –
Ann Sirot et Raphaël Balboni

Le château de cartes – Virginie Gourmel

Le fils du Flamand – Alexandre Jallali




Low-budget projects

Chiennes de vies – Xavier Seron

La salle des pas perdus –
Roda Fawaz et Thibaut Wohlfahrt

Les Enfants perdus –
Michèle Jacob et Ben Dessy

Pèlerinage – Maarten Loix

Here is the booklet

La sélection 2020

le catalogue des projets ici

Projets émergents

“Droit au but” de Nabil Rian

“Hamza Mercury” de Monir Ait-hamou & Ish Ait-hamou

“Les méduses” d’Ely Chevillot

“A la recherche de la bite magique” de Nina Vanspranghe

“Belladone” de Maxime Pistorio

“La récolte des dattes” d’Amel Benaïssa

“Silence” de Carol Van Hemelrijck

“Maïa” de Lou du Pontavice

“Transparency” de Noha Choukrallah

“À l’année prochaine” de Pierre Collet

Projets avancés

“Petite Reine” de Jonas d’Adeski

“Le dernier des dinosaures” de Sacha Feiner

“Bagarre” de Catherine Cosme

“Le Syndrome des amours passés” d’Ann Sirot & Raphaël Balboni

“Le château de cartes” de Virginie Gourmel

“Le fils du Flamand” d’Alexandre Jallali

Productions légères

“Chiennes de vies” de Xavier Seron

“La salle des pas perdus” de Roda Fawaz et Thibaut Wohlfahrt

“Les enfants perdus” de Michèle Jacob et Ben Dessy

“Pèlerinage” de Maarten Loix

Our reading commitee

Samuel Tilman – chairman

Samuel Tilman is a writer, director and producer.

Juliette Klinke

Writer and director Juliette Klinke works between Switzerland and Belgium.

Boris Tilquin

Boris Tilquin is a philosopher, writer and scriptwriter.

Thomas Van Zuylen

A graduate of the Institute of Broadcast Arts, Thomas Van Zuylen directed several documentaries for television.

Aurélie Wijnants

An antique dealer for fifteen years, Aurélie Wijnants discovered film sets in 2008 and it was love at first sight!

Delphine Wil

Following a career as a journalist in Europe and Africa, Delphine Wil entered the world of cinema a few years ago.

Who is Agathe Berman,
pitching trainer?

Agathe Berman is a graduate of the Polygram Fastlane Media programme (London, Los Angeles), with a degree in linguistics and media from the Sorbonne in Paris, who puts creation and transmission at the heart of its concerns. She claims her membership in the “slash generation”: producer/author/teacher/pitchologist. She coaches pitch sessions at the co-production forum of SeriesMania (Lille), Cine Ventana (Madrid), Balkan Film Market (Tirana), Odessa Film Festival, as well as TVFI, Créative Europe and EWA. She runs pitch-training courses with the Documentary Workshop and the Series Section at the Fémis (Paris).

In the art preparatory class at the Atelier de Sèvres (Paris), she trains students for the written and oral examinations for French and international art schools. She has produced over fifty films as an associate of Les Films d’Ici and Legato Films. Her credits include productions by Cédric Klapisch, Richard Copans, Louise Hémon, Gilles Bannier and Christophe Honoré, among others.

As of 2018, with her structure AgatheBerman Studio, she is developing art and society creative documentaries, fiction series and textual expertises, including with authors Cyril Brody, Dina Khan, Maxence Stamatiadis and Gisèle Vienne. She occasionally acts as artistic advisor for stage creations, performances and video documents, working with choreographer Kader Belarbi, stage director Jacques Vincey and visual artist Pablo Berman, among others.

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 Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel, screen.brussels, the SACD, SABAM for culture, Elles Font Des Films et the UPFF.

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.

Samuel Tilman – chairman

Samuel Tilman is a writer, director and producer. His directing credits include two ambitious docu-dramas: the documentary series Kongo and Le dernier Gaulois. His first feature film, Une part d'ombre, was released in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Canada and Taiwan and has been sold in some fifteen countries. As a producer, he has accompanied the first films of Joachim Lafosse, François Pirot, Vanja d'Alcantara and Olivier Meys, among others. With his company Eklektik Productions, he has produced over sixty films in almost fifteen years.

Juliette Klinke

Writer and director Juliette Klinke works between Switzerland and Belgium. She is also involved in a number of projects as assistant director, back-up director and child coach. Her first two short fiction films, Nelson and Les Dauphines, were selected for several festivals around the world (Locarno, Angers, Clermont-Ferrand, BFI, FIFF, etc.) and won numerous awards. Juliette has just completed a short documentary, Dans le silence d'une mer abyssale (In the Silence of an Abyssal Sea), which examines the place of pioneering women filmmakers in history. The film is part of a collection on ‘Women and cinema’. She is currently working on a feature-length documentary and was awarded a prize at the 53rd Solothurn Film Festival to support the idea of a first feature-length fiction film.

Boris Tilquin

Boris Tilquin is a philosopher, writer and scriptwriter. He wrote his first film script in 2014 and regularly works as a consultant and script-doctor. He is currently developing Matière première, a 8x52 series between Belgium and the Congo, thanks to the RTBF/FWB Series Fund. He is also Vice-President of the TV Series Division of the Audiovisual Screenwriters’ Association (ASA).

Thomas van Zuylen

A graduate of the IAD, Thomas van Zuylen has directed several documentaries for television, which led him to co-write Les chevaliers blancs, L’économie du couple and Continuer with Joachim Lafosse and to follow various filmmakers on their writing journeys. He has just directed his first short film, Sparring Partners, and is currently working on his first feature film. He also co-writes the shows of the Brussels company Still Life, whose latest show, No One, has just been selected for the Avignon Festival.

Aurélie Wijnants

An antique dealer for fifteen years, Aurélie discovered film sets in 2008 and it was love at first sight! After trying her hand at various production jobs, she wrote, produced and directed her first documentary, Portrait de Nobel (Eloges/RTBF), first broadcast on Arte Belgique in 2012. She also created a programme on Belgian fashion called Moda Moda (Eloges/RTBF), broadcast on La Deux from 2012 to 2014. That same year, she turned to fiction, with great success: her first short film script won first prize at the BSFF Scriptwriting Competition in 2016. She is currently developing a prison series for the Series Funds, Exit, as well as a hospital series for the international market, Mauvais Genre. She also works as a scriptwriter on various projects, including an episode of season 3 of Unité 42, and as a script-doctor for series, shorts and feature film projects.

Delphine Wil

Following a career as a journalist in Europe and Africa, Delphine entered the world of cinema a few years ago. In 2017, she completed Mémoire de missionnaires, her first film, which was selected for festivals and broadcasted in several countries. Delphine is currently working on a number of audiovisual and sound design projects, both documentary and fiction. Her origins, rooted in Belgium and the DR Congo, are an undeniable mark on her work.

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.