BELGIAN PITCHING SESSION
The Millenium Festival supports documentary creation and organizes a pitching session for young Belgian filmmakers! Are you a film school graduate or a young director? Do you have an idea for a film that is close to your heart and want to give yourself the best chance to see it succeed? Come and meet professionals and experts from the Belgian film world, producers, decision-makers, and distributors, to help you achieve this!
The Belgian pitching session is intended for young filmmakers with a first or second film project. It will allow you to meet producers, decision-makers, and distributors to help you develop and explore the potential of your project as well as to understand how to put together a good file and to whom to address it.
Specialists will help you prepare your pitching and discussions with decision-makers.
Various cash and service prizes will be awarded to the best projects.
PROGRAM
- Presentation of the participating speakers and professionals.
- Presentation of the projects, collective pitching session.
- Individual pitching sessions: based on a speed dating model, participants will have 20 minutes to present their project to each of the professionals.
- Presentation and discussion on documentary co-productions at RTBF (selection process, editorial lines, audience segmentation, calls for projects, …)
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
The project must be the director’s first or second film.