Stage 3 - Liège (2024)

💫 A successful trip to Liège! 📈

What a joy it was to meet up with our teams again for this third stopover during the Wallifornia MusicTech, what's more in places steeped in history such as the cinéma Churchill and La Grand Poste. Liège's warm welcome is far from a myth!

This stage saw the projects fine-tuned and the business models taking shape, thanks to the contributions and invaluable advice of our guests. After a focus on funding opportunities and the art of the pitch by Vincent Wattiez and Odile Malevé from Wallimage, the teams were able to meet several funding bodies individually: Laetitia Facon for the CNC, Edouard Tunc for the IFCIC, Gilles Duffau for the Groupe Caisse des Dépôts and Stephanie Leempoels for the Europe Créative Wallonie-Bruxelles office. 📊

🙌 We would also like to thank all the Walloon structures that accepted our invitation, for their contribution to the discussions: Thibaut Quirynen and Clara Léonet (CinéCité, Kinograph de Bruxelles etc.), Claire Battistoni from hub.brussels, Marion Decloître and Loik Coubeaux from Quai10, Pierre-Yves Darquenne from La Quadrature du Cercle, Valérie Jacquart from Plaza Hotton, Grégory Lacroix from Ciné4 and finally the whole team of Grignoux (Marianne Tinant, Léa Giorgi, Lucien Halflants, Adeline Margueron, Stéphane Wintgens).

🙏 And because we can never mention it enough, a big thank you to our wonderful steering committee present on this stage : Baptiste Heynemann (CST), Aude Merlet (Groupe Audiens), Mathieu Guilloux (AFCAE), Michele Ziegler (NewImages Festival by the Forum des images), Soraya Kavoussian (Agence So), Marie-alix Fourquenay (Région Grand Est), Elise Mignot (Café des images), Anne Pouliquen (Futura Cinema).        

🔜 Make way for summer and see you in September 2024 in Strasbourg during the Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg.