2024 edition
2024 shortlist
Projects in development
Ghost Mother – David Tcherepanya
Legs – Emmanuel Jespers
Miss Annie autour du monde – Sarah Hirtt
Nice White Lady – Melissa Şeker
Old Boys Gran Turismo – Giancarlo Rocconi & Natalie Hill
Re-Birth – Carine Khalaf
Toutes les filles s'appellent Jean-Pierre – Véronique Jadin
WOUF – Hippolyte Leibovici
Low-budget productions
Forêt Ivre – Manon Coubia
L'Estive – Naël Khleifi & Lisa Debauche
Leskovik – Arthur Michel
Spleen-Off – Claude Schmitz
Three Days 1/3 – Rayan Mayasi
Our reading committee
Julien Henry
After a more than ten years' experience directing television, mini-dramas, commercials and music videos, Julien turned to storytelling.
Thibaut Wohlfahrt
Screenwriter and director of several short films, Thibaut Wohlfahrt has made a name for himself with the Belgian-Lebanese film Bruxelles-Beyrouth and Ma Gueule.
Martine Doyen
A screenwriter and director from Brussels, she teaches and also works as a script consultant for various organizations and productions.
Who is Marie Lamboeuf,
pitching trainer?
After spending three years in New York, Marie joined the film industry and gained experience in international marketing at Celluloid Dreams (3 Visages by Jafar Panahi, Jusqu’à la garde by Xavier Legrand).
She then held the position of Festivals Manager at Luxbox for three years, where she had the opportunity to work on films such as 1976 by Manuela Martelli, Under the Fig Trees by Erige Sehiri and 20 Thousand Species of Bees by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren.
Since 2023, Marie has been working in the Urban Sales team in Sales & Acquisitions.
She also took part in the Puentes EAVE workshop, aimed at developing co-productions between Europe and Latin America, is a reader for France 2 Cinéma and the CNC and a member of the European Film Awards.
Who is Jérôme Nunes,
pitching trainer?
Born in 1980, Jérôme Nunes studied languages and film theory at the Universities of Aix-en-Provence and Nottingham. He spent six years in England teaching literature and film, while embarking on a PhD project. Returning to France, he and Jean-Laurent Csinidis created in 2010 the production company Films de Force Majeure in Marseille.
Together they won the 2015/16 France Télévisions Young Producer Prize. He is particularly interested in fiction and writing support, hence he has produced a number of emerging writers.
For seven years, he co-organized Nisi Masa’s European Short Pitch (a European scheme combining a writing workshop and a co-production forum).
He takes part in writing residencies (WarshatAflam – CNC Talents en courts, ShorTS Int. Film Festival in Trieste, etc.). He is also a reader for local commissions and the CNC (pre-production support).
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.