Digital Na(rra)tive Stories Pitch

Official Selection
Jury Members:
- Jake Wiafe, Programming Manager & Unscripted Development, Little Dot Studios (United Kingdom)
- Elizabeth Markevitch, Founder and CEO, Ikono TV (Germany)
- Claire Hazan, Head of Studios, Spotify (France)

BARN SHORT DOCS
Produced by: Neolight Productions Limited (Kenya)
Directed by: Jake Sirma
Logline: Short documentary stories of social impact, innovation, and human stories from the African continent.

CLIMATE JUSTICE
Produced by: SEPPIA (France)
Directed by: Zouhair Chebbale
Logline: Faced with global warming, European citizens are taking the fight to the courts. Some have already won, others are well on their way. Now, for the first time, a European court is taking up the case: a crucial turning point for climate justice. This series is an immersive account of a mobilisation that brings hope to the environmental movement.

FINDING HOME
Produced by: Iliade et Films (France), AnimaDocs (Bulgaria)
Directed by: Maria Stanisheva
Logline: FINDING HOME is an animated documentary series that tells the stories of climate refugees from around the world and sets out to re-imagine the notion of "home".

THE CHARACTERS
Produced by: POINT DU JOUR - LES FILMS DU BALIBARI (France)
Directed by: Elsa Oliarj-Ines
Logline: How do we become the person we are? How do we find our place in society? These are not easyquestions to ask. But what if they could find an answer in time and in a place? What if this place were a schoolyard? For nearly 8 years, I have been filming a class of children in the playground of an ikastola, a bilingual, French and Basque school.

A VERY HOT SUMMER IN NEW YORK CITY
Produced by: Binge Audio (France)
Directed by: Anne-Cécile Genre and Marine Pradel
Logline: A Very Hot Summer In New-York City (STUPRE !) is a 8-episode podcast series about the last international sex scandal before Me Too : “l’affaire DSK” (the DSK case). An immersive documentary thriller questioning how the story about sex and power is told, and should be told.

LA BUISSONNIÈRE
Produced by: CLAP AUDIO (France)
Directed by: Héloïse Pierre
Logline: Learning citizenship and democracy and making the students actors of their learning, this is what the public school of Vence, cradle of the Freinet pedagogy, proposes. During one year, we follow the kindergarten students and their teacher Marie, in sound immersion.