Global Issues Pitch

Official Selection
Jury Members:
- Anita Afonu, Documentary Filmmaker (Ghana)
- Laure de Peretti de la Rocca, Project Manager, Storyboard Collective (Switzerland)
- Marieke van den Bersselaar, Producer, Polar Star Films (Spain)

DIGITAL TSUNAMI
Produced by: White Pine Pictures (Canada)
Directed by: Fred Peabody
Logline: We are engulfed in a digital tsunami- a toxic mix of social media, surveillance capitalism, and state surveillance. We examine this through media ecology, a field pioneered 60 years ago by the prophetic media theorist Marshall McLuhan. The film features Ron Deibert, director of the UofT internet watchdog group Citizen Lab, and author of RESET.

OUTSIDER
Produced by: Kopuku Films (India), ELDA Productions (France)
Directed by: Siddesh Shetty

SPACE EMPIRES
Produced by: La Compagnie des Taxi Brousse (France)
Directed by: Véronique Préault

BREAKING SOCIAL
Produced by: WG Film (Sweden)
Directed by: Fredrik Gertten

SHE
Produced by: Antropica S.r.l. (Italy)
Directed by: Parsifal Reparato
Logline: Stories of exploitation and patriarchy in the largest electronics industrial plant in the world, in Vietnam.

POISON(S)
Produced by: LITTLE BIG STORY (France)
Directed by: Jennifer Deschamps
Logline: Iouchtchenko, Litvinenko, Skripal, Navalny…For 20 years, Russian poison has run through the veins of international diplomacy, until Russia was ready to attack.
A word from the Pitch Sponsor

RTBF
"Instant information provokes us, awakens our fears and reveals our anxieties. However, our reflections must be based on other sources. Questioning, analysing, decoding, multiplying perspectives and views to avoid a single thought and develop our opinions, even if they are contradictory or disturbing for a moment. For RTBF, it is essential to encourage and support initiatives that contribute to breaking down barriers and allow a better understanding of our world, in all its complexity. The necessary step back, the unique angle of view, the long time, but also the creativity in the look are all necessary additions that avoid the monochrome and enrich these palettes of life that document in a different way our world in perpetual evolution."
Vincent Godfroid, Head of documentary acquisitions RTBF