European Short Pitch is an initiative aimed at promoting the European coproduction of short films. It combines ascriptwriting workshop in residency and a coproduction forum bringing together scriptwriters/directors and industryprofessionals from all over Europe.Selected on the basis of their short film projects, 20 European talents gather to discuss, rewrite, and learn to promotetheir stories on a European level with the support of 5 tutors. The first session will mainly be focused on rewriting theproject and pitching training. This intense, hands on one week session will be followed by several online sessions to keep on enhancing the quality of the project. Two months after the first session, the participants will pitch their film project in front of a panel of 50 invited producers, financers, buyers, and distributors. They will be invited for four days in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg to take part in the pitching session and to meet the scriptwriters/directors individually.From this year onwards, we’ll be adding an additional focus on post-production as well where five works-in-progresswill be shown and pitched during our second session.European Short Pitch aims to bring young European talents into the spotlight, give them a high-end promotionopportunity, and develop short film coproduction in Europe. This initiative is about enhanced economic viability andEuropean visibility for short film projects. We expect that minimum 65% of the projects will find their (co-)producersduring the event.