Inspiration
Biblical Lenses
Introduction to the Biblical Lenses
What might happen when filmmakers approach the Bible not for answers, but as a place to question, imagine and create?
Lily Davis
News
The Pitch's New Commission to Launch at Aesthetica 2026
In November, The Pitch comes to the Aesthetica Film Festival in York to open its new annual commissioning process: a programme supporting bold, cinematic stories that bring biblical imagination into conversation with the questions shaping life today.
Luke Walton
Inside The Pitch
The Writers' Retreat: Low Wood Bay
I think I was probably feeling nervous as the train pulled into Windermere station. I had been taking baby steps as a filmmaker - shooting shorts with friends for fun, entering them into competitions, just enjoying the buzz of creating. But now The Pitch had selected my idea, and I was heading to Low Wood Bay Hotel in the Lake District for a “Writers’ Retreat”. I felt waaaay out of my depth and already intimidated by the prospect of being surrounded by Proper Writers, never mind the Industry Titans who would be critiquing my story. What was I doing here?
Andy Toovey
Beyond the Frame
I'm not a Robot
Films that we think are examples of shorts that play into the theme of our new commissioning question: “What does it mean to be human in the age of AI?”
Luke Walton
Biblical Lenses
Identity
Uncovering Face and Name: how identity is grounded in encounter, recognition, and relationship.
Lily Davis
Biblical Lenses
Imagination
The serious pursuit of imagination, and the power of stories to bring new worlds into being.
Lily Davis
Biblical Lenses
Grief
Lament, the multiplicity of memory, and whether AI can participate in it or only simulate it.
Lily Davis
Biblical Lenses
Neighbour
Who is my neighbour? The Good Samaritan, the curated logic of technology, and the neighbour as given.
Lily Davis
Biblical Lenses
Incarnation
The Word made flesh, the value of the body, and the question of who to trust in an age of machines.
Lily Davis · 16 September 2026