Baltic Pitching Forum

Event Description

The Baltic Pitching Forum aims to set up a place for short filmmakers situated in the Baltic Sea region to present their new projects whilst sharing common issues and knowledge, exchanging experiences and good practices, developing artistic ideas, and increasing contacts. The event will also encourage them to attract active European producers, TV commissioners, film fund representatives, VoD and festival programmers and distributors. Organizer - Lithuanian Short Film Agency LITHUANIAN SHORTS.

2024 Event Coverage

Animation Projects Selected:

It is (Not) Yours by Carlos Santiago Ordoñez (Estonia/Colombia)
It has always rained inside Diego, a young man who lives in a house of emptiness and ties, of absence and presence, of control and freedom. A shelter of a love, which has been forgotten. A home that leads to the unleashing of the internal storm of its tenant.

Tears of Stardust by Vilma Razmutė (Lithuania)

A young woman hurts herself falling from her bike: she tries to hold back tears, but her emotions open a gate to another dimension, and she embarks on a journey of coming to terms with her father’s death. Falling into a multiverse, she alters the course of high-achieving engineer Vincent’s rocket launch: his internal fears in turn cause small interruptions that impact another reality, triggering those of trans man Billie who is walking to the hospital for a breast removal procedure. These characters have no idea about their connection, but subtly help each other in their healing journeys.

Endless Summer by Paula Skelin (Croatia - 2024 guest country)
Maja, a young sound composer, visits her grandmother on a small Mediterranean island. Their inner worlds, one vibrant with sound and the other shrouded in silence due to hearing difficulties, collide. Although Maja tends to focus on her work and exploration of island sounds, she brings a hearing aid to her grandmother, which becomes a turning point, awakening her grandmother’s subconscious world and strengthening their bond. Her grandmother’s initial resistance to the hearing aid uncovers her struggle to cope with the silence and the fear of the unknown.

All projects

Call for Entries (Archive)

Film directors and/or producers who are citizens of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Guest country Croatia or have a right of permanent residence in the countries mentioned.

Applicants must have finished at least one short film project and are developing a new project which is:

● fiction, animation, hybrid (documentary projects are not eligible)
● stand-alone short film project (not TV series)
● in the development stage (the production should start no earlier than 2025)
● up to 30 minutes
● aimed at the international audience
● one of the production countries must be Baltic or Guest country

Filmmakers are allowed to submit more than one project with a separate registration form for each submission. Projects that have previously been submitted to the Forum will not be accepted.

12 short film projects will be selected to participate in the Baltic Pitching Forum. Up to 2 representatives of each selected project (producer and/or director) will be invited to take part in the training and pitching sessions during the Forum.

Materials Needed:

• script or treatment (if submitting with the treatment, please note, that in case of selection You will be asked to deliver the script by 30 August)
• director’s statement
• CV and filmography of director and producer
• financial and distribution plans (not mandatory)
• visual reference material (not mandatory)

The application form and additional material must be prepared in English. All materials must be merged into a single PDF file, named [Country_Project Title in English]. Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

• Entry Form
• Regulations
• The participation fee per participant: 390 EUR (includes accommodation, board, script consultation and tuition during the Baltic Pitching Forum) or 250 EUR without accommodation (includes board, script consultation and tuition during the Baltic Pitching Forum).
• Deadline: 25 June 2024

• 2023 Selected Projects
• 2022 Selected Projects
• 2021 Selected Projects

2020 Selected Projects

ESTONIA

• Keyhole (fiction, dir. Juri Krutii, prod. Nell Cunningham, production company: Pensive Pictures)Rabbit Hole (fiction, dir. Ragne Mandri, prod. Laura García Baeza, production company: Kino Eyes)
• Skin of a Mandarin (fiction, dir. Jaanika Arum, prod. Tiina Savi, production company: KARTULIÕIS)

LATVIA

• Elk (fiction, dir. Lauris Ābele, prod. Sintija Heine, production company: Tritone Studio)
• Tool (animation, dir. Raitis Ābele, Harijs Grundmanis, prod. Raitis Ābele, production company: Tritone Studio)
• The Man Who Scooped the Sea (mockumentary, dir./prod. Zurab Dzhidzhilava, co-producer Elene Margvelashvili)

LITHUANIA

• Bruno (animation, dir. Danas Bereznickas, prod. Gabija Budreckytė, production company: Kinomind Films)
• Tell It to My Heart (fiction, dir. Elena Rožukaitė, Gabrielė Misevičiūtė, production company: Tremora)
• The One Who Knows (animation, dir. Eglė Davidavičė, prod. Agnė Adomėnė, production company: Art Shot)

POLAND

• Dessert Dachshund (animation, dir. Betina Bożek, prod. Aneta Zagorska, Robert Sowa, production company: Krakow Film Klaster)
• Ebony (fiction, dir. Karolina Żebrowska, prod. Shruti Sidhan, production company: COWDAZE)
• Team Building (fiction, dir. Mateusz Pacewicz, prod. Ludka Kieczak, production company: Kosmonaut)

NB: 2025 Event dates are tentative