SHIFT Film Pitch 2023 is coached by talented producer Nicky Onstenk from IJswater Films. The training sessions are obligatory and take place online on September 12 and 14 between 10.00 and 12.00 AM.
SHIFT Film Pitch
CineSud stimulates new filmmakers and professionals in several ways. We organise training programs, Writers Rooms and offer filmmakers lots of other activities. Via our Pitch Forums we are able to offer filmmakers small production grants, which they can use to co-finance their next projects. The winner of the SHIFT Film Pitch will receive a production grant of €2.000, which has to be used for producing the project that is pitched.
Selected Participants & Projects
- Pim Vogels | Hold on tight | fiction | The Netherlands
- Sukhmani Lunial | Armchair with Honey | fiction | The Netherlands
- Sem Dingemans | Automaton | fiction | The Netherlands
- Jeroen Zeegers | The Excavator | fiction | The Netherlands
Pim Vogels
Hold on tight!
Pim is a writer, director and co-producer. Film is all Pim surrounds himself with, as he is an editor for the Cinedome magazine, founder of the filmfestival Flickers, and cinema manager. As a screenwriter he likes to embrace the absurd, which will become very evident in his next project Hold on tight.
Pitch project | Hold on tight
On his eightieth birthday, Hans, who is suffering from dementia, stays over at his son's and daughter-in-law's place. They are not eager for his presence, and are devising a plan to 'take him away'.
Sukhmani Lunial
Armchair with Honey
Sukhmani is a recent graduate from Academy Minerva in Groningen. She has spent her fine art study focusing on bringing artistic visuals into film. She has worked on several film projects in the past couple of years, picking up the needed skills to make an efficient film set. Besides that, she has also made a few films of her own thus honing the art of translating narratives on paper to screen.
Pitch project | Armchair with Honey
A woman finds the dead body of her partner in the living room and converses with it while trying to decide her next steps.
Sem Dingemans
Automaton
Sem was born in 1996 and grew up in Venlo in the Netherlands. After working as a crew member on several short films he started to direct his own short movies. He just graduated from de Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht with his short drama Goudhaan. Most of his short films are based on personal story’s. These grounded stories he likes to combine with pronounced locations what can elevate the subject. Added with a bit of comedy and absurdism, he strives to craft films that are both entertaining to watch and carry a profound message.
Pitch project | Automaton
In a contemporary world dominated by express services, where technology and digital communication reign, two individuals cross paths and form a connection they had forgotten they desired.
Jeroen Zeegers
The Excavator
Pitch project | The Excavator
The Excavator is a short comedy (15 min.) that is about two workmen, Edgar and Tom, who get into a power struggle over who gets to sit in the excavator.
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