Focus WiP

The Focus WiP is a selection of promising short films in production or post-production presented to key players of the short film Industry – distributors, programmers, institutions, film funds, producers and buyers – within a pitch session.

Presentation

The initiative allows filmmakers to benefit from mentoring sessions and promote their project before its finalization.

Directors and producers of the chosen projects enjoy a privileged space to present extracts from their work-in-progress. The Focus WiP aims at facilitating the completion and the release of these short films on an international scale.

The 2024 Focus WiP projects will be unveiled soon.

Benefits

The project holders get access to the following benefits:

Pitch Training workshop
Individual mentoring session with a dedicated mentor, depending on the short’s current step of development
Participation to the Focus WiP session – presentation of the chosen work-in-progress
One-to-one meetings with the attending decision-makers

Thanks to the participation of Hiventy, technical partner of the Festival de Cannes, a project will benefit from a 5’000€ grant dedicated to the finalization of the short film post-production.

Mentors

In 2022, project-holders had the chance to count on the expertise of various mentors:

Justine Baillargeon – h264 ; Nadia Ben Rachid – editor ; Jim Cummings – filmmaker ; Ron Dyens – Sacrebleu Productions ; Lisa Marie Russo – producer & director ; Wim Vanacker – First Cut Lab ; Florian Weghorn – Berlinale Talents

The 2023 mentors will be announced soon.

Collaborations

MIDPOINT Institute – Upon all the projects presented, one of them will be taken from MIDPOINT Shorts, a program dedicated to short films in development.