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PITCH SESSION
On your marks, get set? PITCH!
Do you have a film project with a social or environmental impact?
Do you dream of presenting it to influential professionals in the audiovisual and CSR sectors?
The Deauville Green Awards offer you a unique opportunity: the Pitch Session!
On 3 June 2026, as part of our professional event at the GoodPlanet Foundation in Paris, we are bringing together an exceptional panel of broadcasters, producers and patrons to discover the talents of tomorrow.
A unique platform to bring your project to life!
Why take part?
- Present your project to a panel of influential professionals in the audiovisual and production sectors.
- Receive valuable advice to refine your project and maximise its impact.
- Boost your visibility at an international festival that showcases socially engaged works.
- Seize the opportunity to be spotted by sponsors or broadcasters and bring your project to fruition.
Collaborations born out of the Pitch Sessions:
- Watt the Fish (2018) → Supported and broadcast by Ushuaïa TV.
- Paris, Ville Nature (2021) → Pre-purchased by Seppia and Ushuaïa TV.
- Manger autrement, l’expérimentation (2020) → Broadcast on France Télévisions and supported by ADEME.
Why not yours this year?!
Directors, producers or audiovisual students! The festival gives you the chance to talk about your film projects with a social or environmental impact, at our exceptional event in Paris.
In order to support the creation and the storytelling around key environmental issues, inspired by our partners Ushuaia TV, the festival will once again be offering pitch sessions as part of the 2026 professional program.
The festival is a unique opportunity for change agents to meet the audiovisual creators who have come together for the first time in Paris. For this 15th edition, the focus is on networking between professionals and celebrating creativity: pitch sessions in front of a panel of TV channels, production companies, etc.
What happens next?
Mid-May 2026
Announcement of the four finalist projects
Mid-May 2026
10 June 2026
Live pitch session in Paris in front of a panel of industry professionals
With unique networking and funding opportunities on offer.
Ready to get your project off the ground?
On your marks, get set… PITCH!
2026 Jury
Sophie Bacry Picciotto
A screenwriter, director and playwright, Sophie Bacry Picciotto is also an actress. Acting sparked a desire to go beyond simply creating characters and plots, leading her to train in writing stories that convey meaning, albeit in a tone that is naturally more feel-good than dramatic.
After co-writing her first play, 22 V’LA LES FILLES, Sophie wrote TOUT LE MONDE PEUT SE TROMPER on her own, a comedy nominated for the 2014 Bajen Foundation Author’s Prize.
Whilst continuing her career as an actress and singer, Sophie has collaborated on various projects (feature films and series), and her writing is inspired by women in their 50s and their power of seduction. This led to the short film VIRTUAL ATTRACTION (Pixaway Production-2018), in which the director had the pleasure of directing Florence Pernel. The film, selected for various festivals, encouraged the writer-director to commit more fully to writing her own projects and championing themes close to her heart, both in life and on screen. She thus directed TOUS LES TROIS JOURS, a public service announcement against domestic violence, to raise awareness of the citizen-led movement Le Point Noir.
Sophie co-directed two films with Ophélie Koering, L’INTERDIT and DANS L’OMBRE, exploring the dangers of a world without culture, and has written on citizenship and the issue of the duty to assist.
MARIE DURAND
Marie Durand joined TV5MONDE’s programming department in 2022, where she is responsible for acquiring short programmes, documentaries and current affairs programmes. In particular, she supports projects that have a strong focus on environmental and ecological issues. A graduate with a Master’s degree in Documentary Film (University of Bordeaux III) and a Master’s degree in Law, Economics and Management of the Audiovisual Sector (Paris I), she has been working in the audiovisual sector for over fifteen years, in both public and private organisations.
VINCENT LE GOFF
Vincent LE GOFF, who has been Head of Broadcasting and Acquisitions at TF1 - Pôle Découvertes since October 2013, coordinates the broadcasting strategy and manages the programming for Ushuaia TV, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2025.
Previously, he was Deputy Director of Programming at Eurosport International.
Vincent holds a Master’s degree in Quantitative Marketing from the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires and has completed an advanced management programme at ESSEC.
KATIA MAKSYM
Katia Maksym primarily initiates and produces impactful content. She produces documentaries, current affairs programmes and digital formats that shed light on and help viewers understand the real world. The programmes she develops and oversees explore human and societal themes. Through series such as ‘Dans les yeux d’Olivier’ and ‘Ils font bouger les lignes’, and standout one-off programmes such as ‘Homos en politique, le dire ou pas?’, ‘À la hauteur’ and ‘Chemsex, accros au sexe sous drogues’, she champions authentic, bold storytelling that stays close to the human experience.
CLAIRE SIMONOT
Claire Simonot is a screenwriter, script doctor and researcher in the cultural and creative industries. At the intersection of writing, research and knowledge-sharing, she explores contemporary shifts in storytelling, creative models and forms of cultural production.
She moderates and leads masterclasses and panel discussions alongside professionals from Netflix, DreamWorks and Paris 8 University.
She has collaborated with MoPA as part of the M6 Espoirs de l’Animation programme, working on 3D animated film scripts for Gulli, TiJi and Canal J. Since 2018, she has taught at numerous higher education institutions in France, where she supports several hundred students each year in the fields of film, audiovisual media, 2D/3D animation, video games and communication (ECV, Ynov Campus, Cinécréatis, ESMA, Brassart, EFAP, MOPA, UCO Laval, etc.)
She is the founder of ICE Research Lab (Inclusion, Creation, Experience), an independent action research laboratory dedicated to human-AI co-creation, cognitive neurodiversity and the emergence of new narrative forms in the creative, cultural and industrial sectors. In this context, she has developed the 4D Certification, an assessment framework for creative skills that integrates technical, creative, reflective and inclusive dimensions, as well as the concept of creative cognitive prostheses, referring to co-creation tools capable of amplifying the design capabilities specific to cognitive singularities.
Her work focuses in particular on the conditions of creation in the age of artificial intelligence, on the recognition of cognitive diversity as a design resource, and on the challenges of European intellectual property sovereignty in the face of global standardisation dynamics. It also informs a project for therapeutic campuses dedicated to neurodivergent students in higher education within the CCI sector.
She is regularly invited as an expert, panellist and speaker on the transformation of screenwriting in the age of AI (SATIS) and trains students for pitch and public speaking competitions, notably as part of the national Ynov & EICAR competition, the final of which is held at TF1’s headquarters.