Although there are “screenwriting” sections in some universities and colleges, few new screenwriters manage to integrate into a complicated market. What are the obstacles to the survival and development of screenwriters in French-speaking Belgium? Can this situation be remedied?
To try to answer these questions, and to provide some possible solutions, the Rencontres Professionnelles 2022 have brought together a representative panel of the profession, training institutions and the political world, who are (re)discovering the situation of scriptwriters, in Belgium and elsewhere.