PITCH_IT 4TH EDITION 2024-2025

PITCH_IT 4TH EDITION is a workshop programme for emerging directors, writers, and producers who are based in the Republic of Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Republic of Serbia, and the Slovak Republic and aims to support your first steps in the film industry. The project is a collaboration between Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and Goethe-Institut funded by the programme „Perspektive Donau” of the Foundation Baden-Württemberg Stiftung.

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Pitch_it 2024-2025

The art of pitching is the professional oral presentation of a project idea or story. A task that even brilliant filmmakers and producers often fail at. A successful pitch of a film project can decide whether a project is realized or not.

PITCH_IT offers intensive workshops in the fields of production, directing, distribution and film-marketing. All Mentors are highly experienced and decorated members of the current film industry and will guide your project throughout this program. Furthermore, the pitching training by communication trainer Sibylle Kurz is intended to help the participants to prepare their projects in line with the actual film market requirements and offer skills for networking in the international film industry.

At the end of the trainings, the participants can present their film projects to employees of international film festivals (previous Editions featured experts from Sundance, IDFA, Dok.Fest München etc.), film funding agencies, streamers like NETFLIX (2024 Edition) and distributers like BETA Film and Deckert Distribution (2024 Edition) alongside Berlinale 2025.

We look forward to applications from filmmakers in the fields of documentary, feature film and experimental film with their long (minimum 60 minutes) film-projects.

Who can participate?
This workshop is designed to give an international platform for emerging directors, writers, and producers who are based in the Republic of Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Republic of Serbia, and the Slovak Republic. Each country will be represented within the project. The language of the training and the workshop is English. The conditions of participation and details can be found in the call for entries.

PITCH IT 4TH EDITION

CALL FOR ENTRIES (PDF, 148 KB)

The application deadline is 31st of July 2024

Archive of projects

Detailed description of the projects

Official catalog of projects in 2024(PDF, 2 MB)

Official catalog of projects in 2023(PDF, 5 MB)

Official catalog of projects in 2021(PDF, 3 MB)

THE ORGANIZERS

Filmakademie Baden-Württenberg

Since it was founded in 1991, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg has become one of the world’s leading film academies. Around 250 films covering a range of genres are created by teams of students each year. Several won prizes at film festivals. The overriding objective of the program is to prepare students in the best possible way for a successful career in the film and media industries.

Goethe-Institut

The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. We promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. We convey a comprehensive image of Germany by providing information about cultural, social and political life in our nation. Our cultural and educational programmes encourage intercultural dialogue and enable cultural involvement. They strengthen the development of structures in civil society and foster worldwide mobility. We are partners for all who actively engage with Germany and its culture, working independently and without political ties.

More to read

Péter Becz: The Last Dinner. Feeding the Revolution

Filmprojekte realisieren
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„Im Workshop konnten wir lernen, wie wir unsere Vision und unsere Geschichten auf die effektivste und zugleich am meisten mit uns selbst im Einklang stehende Weise an andere weitergeben können.“ Interview mit dem Dokumentarfilmemacher Péter Becz

Ein Interview mit Sibylle Kurz
Professionalität, Kommunikationswille und -fähigkeit setze ich voraus

Zum Anlass der finalen Veranstaltung von PITCH_IT@Berlinale am 16. Februar 2023 gewährt Sibylle Kurz, international gefragte Pitching-Trainerin einen Einblick in den Verlauf ihrer Karriere, in die Kunst des Pitchens, sowie hinter die Kulissen von PITCH_IT@Berlinale 2023.

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The Pitch_it experience

Unsere Workshop-Reihe Pitch_it@Berlinale dauerte vom Juli 2022 bis zum 16. Februar 2023. Bei der Abschlussveranstaltung in Berlin pitchten die Teilnehmer ihre Filmprojekte vor einem Fachpublikum. Lesen sie den Rückblick der ungarischen Teilnehmerin Emília Goldberg auf unser Veranstaltungsreihe.