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.
Awards
After the pitching forum, the attending professionals deliberate and award prizes to the best projects. These projects will then be eligible for support in development, production, or post-production.
o RTBF : 5,000€ for the development of the project.
o Studio Chocolat-Noisette : 2,000€ for the development of the project.
o ARPI : 4,000€ in administrative and creative support.
o Studio Charbon : €3,000 in service support, plus 4 hours of conforming, 2 days of color grading, and 1 ProRes master export.
Programme
o Presentation of the participating speakers and professionals.
o Pitching session.
o Individual encounters: based on a speed dating model, participants will have 20 minutes to present their project to each of the professionals.
Conditions of participation
o The project must be a first or second feature-length documentary film.
o The film must be a Belgian production (either the director is based in Belgium, or the film will be shot in Belgium, making it of interest to a Belgian producer).
o Projects that are not yet backed by a production company are welcome. The forum provides an opportunity to meet producers and other decision-makers.
How to participate?
Applications must be submitted via the following form by 20 February 2025.
Contact
Zlatina Rousseva
zlatinarousseva@yahoo.com
+324/86 83 87 83
Noémi d’Ursel
info.milleniumforum@gmail.com
+324/76 08 05 10