Clin d’Oeil’s Draw for Change
Doc haul to include a pitch of Lennart Stuyck’s fantastical story of two Somali pirates Capturing the Pirate King plus Draw for Change (pictured), a documentary series about female cartoonists who use their drawings to empower women and strive for gender equality.
Doc series activity at RE>CONNEXT 2020 will include a pitch of Lennart Stuyck’s fantastical story of two Somali pirates, Capturing the Pirate King, plus a work-in-title presentation of a 6-part series on the future of The Vatican by Kat Steppe. Another series work-in-progress is Clin d’Oeil’s Draw for Change (pictured), about female cartoonists who use their drawings to empower women and strive for gender equality. The six directors include UK’s Kim Longinotto.
RE>CONNEXT will also screen Luc Lemaitre’s The Offensive, a documentary series based on Jan Antonissen’s book ‘De onfatsoenlijken’ (‘The Indecent’), about the rise of populism in Europe.
The eight documentary series to be showcased at RE>CONNEXT (5-31 October 2020) are as follows:
Project pitch
Capturing the Pirate King Director Lennart Stuyck (Diplodokus)
Works in Progress
Borderline Directors Annabel Verbeke, Isabella Rinaldi, Anna Savchenko, Vytautas Puidokas, Tiha Gudac, Georg Götmark (Off World)
Draw for Change! Showrunners: Vincent Coen & Guillaume Vandenberghe. Directors: Laura Nix, Kim Longinotto, Karen Vazquez Gaudarrama, Arya Roth, Anna Moiseenko, Nada Riyadh (Clin d’oeil Films)
The Vatican Director Kat Steppe (Panenka NV)
In Our Nature Director Serge Leurs (Hotel Hungaria)
XX Directors Zaïde Bil, Ischa Clissen, Heleen Declercq, Sam Peeters (Cassette for timescapes)
Screening
The Offensive Director Luc Lemaitre (Panenka NV)
The virtual showcase RE>CONNEXT 2020 was established after the fifth edition of CONNEXT, which serves as an export platform for film and TV drama made in Flanders, was cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. RE>CONNEXT will feature more than double the number of projects presented annually at CONNEXT.
In 2019, CONNEXT reported a record number of 300 participants including film festival representatives from Cannes, Berlin and Toronto alongside sales agents, distributors, broadcasters, streamers and producers.
Registered industry professionals will be granted on-demand access to new project pitches, presentations of works in progress, and screenings of recent, new and upcoming titles.
