Our Films

This is the heart of the matter: the finished films.

Each year The Pitch provides a substantial budget and support for our top entrant to make their film with our production company Reel Issues Films.

We are also sometimes able to contribute to the development and production of other entrants who make the top ten. You can find out more about those in Other Funded Projects.

To find out more about The Pitch films and where they are available to watch, as well as read what the filmmakers have to say about the process, click through below.

Our Child

Anatole Sloan, Drama Award, 2024

Winner of The Pitch 2024, Our Child follows the story of Xia Jia, a surrogate mother from mainland China, brought to Hong Kong to carry a baby for a wealthy couple. Anatole wrote and directed the film in Hong Kong in 2024, with Reel Issues Films producer Luke Walton and Jackie Sheppard of Footprint Films, and production services provided by Hong Kong production company, Pissbaby.

Jael Drives the Nail

Maddie Dai, Comedy Award, 2024

Winner of The Pitch 2024, Jael Drives the Nail is a cinematic exploration of the gruesome death of General Sisera at the hands of a woman. New Yorker cartoonist & screenwriter Maddie Dai also directed this epic Biblical short film in 2024 with Reel Issues Films producer Luke Walton and Jackie Sheppard of Footprint Films.

Till Death Do Us Part

Carolyn Goodyear, Comedy Award, 2023

Winner of The Pitch 2023, Till Death Do Us Part follows Abby, a long-suffering housewife, dreaming of her un-PC husband dying a gruesome death. Director Oliver Kember brought Goodyear’s script to life during the shoot in 2023, with Goodyear starring as Abby, supported by Reel Issues Films producer Luke Walton and Jackie Sheppard of Footprint Films.

Alice

Jake Falconer, Drama Award, 2023

Winner of The Pitch 2023, Alice is a hard-hitting re-telling of Judas. Accomplished producer Jake Falconer turns his hand to writing & directing, shooting the film in 2023 across London with Reel Issues Films producer Luke Walton and Jackie Sheppard of Footprint Films.

Stump

Silva Kuusniemi, Drama Award, 2022

Winner of The Pitch 2022, Stump is a folk tale set in the wilds of Finland, where disregard for the planet has mysteriously turned those responsible for crimes against the environment feral.

The Innkeeper

Denise Deegan, Comedy Award, 2022

Winner of The Pitch 2022, The Innkeeper follows Holly, a spirited eight-year-old who lands the role of the innkeeper in her class nativity play. Director Paudie Baggott brought Deegan’s script to life and shot the film in Dublin in 2022.

Five Thousand Stars

Oneikeh Campbell, Production Award, 2020

Winner of The Pitch 2020, Five Thousand Stars follows Joyce, a once renowned food critic, now struggling with alcoholism and homelessness.

Hollow

Paul Holbrook, Production Award, 2019

Set on an impoverished, working-class council estate, Hollow tells the story of two lost souls; Laura Ryan, a struggling single mother consumed by grief having lost her son to a drunk-driver and Father Hill, a racially abused local vicar, a man-on-the-edge with dwindling faith.

White Gold

Luke Bradford, Production Award, 2018

Mansa, an African woman with albinism has had her arm hacked off by Natron the witch doctor in the name of witchcraft. Robbed of her security, career and dignity, Mansa now hunts Natron in a bid to confront him and seek her revenge.

Bingo

Ben Cohen, Production Award, 2017

It’s Phil’s first night as compere at his father’s bingo hall. His brother Fred stole the jackpot, crippled the business and now has chosen this evening to return. Not all homecomings are easy.

Leash

Harry Lighton, Production Award, 2016

Post-Brexit, Kasia confronts her local bullies in a small Welsh town. (Leash was formerly known as Go Home.)

The Widow's Last

Vanessa Perdriau, Production Award, 2015

Ireland, 1847. A destitute young widow desperate to save her dying son, must make a choice, but is the cost of survival worth the price of her humanity?

Only Child

Andy Toovey, Production Award, 2014

A gypsy couple struggle to grieve the loss of the child they conceived during an affair. Only Child was nominated as Best Short by BAFTA Cymru.

Pulsar

Aurora Fearnley, Production Award, 2013

A Peacemaker, who rejects his final mission to save an endangered planet, is believed to be cursed when a solar storm hits his spaceship.

The Light

Simon Cookson, Production Award, 2012

Merle is an officer in an anti-communist 'Red Squad' during the McCarthy Red scare. When one of the suspects is killed during an arrest, he is set on a journey that threatens to change his view of the world. Could there be a wrong kind of right?

The Black Scholes Conspiracy

Tim Bassford, Production Award, 2011

A genius stock analyst loses his wife in a fatal car crash. Through his obsession to find comfort and destroy those responsible he is drawn into one final deadly ultimatum.

Rahab

Rob McLellan, Production Award, 2010

A slave, a spy, a city under siege and a choice to be made that will change their world forever.

Derelict

Simeon Lumgair, Production Award, 2009

It's 2025 and the Water Wars ravage Europe. A notorious prisoner of war is on the run, pursued by trained killers. Cornered, he takes an old man hostage in a last ditch attempt at freedom.