{"id":229077,"date":"2026-01-30T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iffr.com\/en\/?p=229077"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:36:48","slug":"blog-rtm-pitch-2027-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iffr.com\/en\/blog-rtm-pitch-2027-winner-announced","title":{"rendered":"RTM Pitch 2027 winner announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are pleased to announce the seventh winner of the RTM Pitch at the opening of the RTM Day, featuring local stories and makers from Rotterdam. Cyan Bae wins the 2027 RTM Pitch with the experimental film project How to Lie, Femme, and Pass<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The film project tells how the queer and feminist perspectives and insights can offer a reimagination of our relationship to algorithmic technologies. This winning project is supported by the Gemeente Rotterdam for \u20ac20,000, with additional support offered by VEVAM Fonds (\u20ac5,000), and will have its world premiere at IFFR 2027. The film Rain in August<\/strong> by previous RTM Pitch winner Ashley R\u00f6ttjers<\/strong> premiered today at LantarenVenster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyan Bae shares their insight on the film project: “Algorithmic security practices can reinforce inequality, rendering some bodies suspicious while others pass. How to Lie, Femme, and Pass<\/strong> aims to disrupt these systems through collaborative filmmaking with queer and feminist co-experimenters. I am stunned and deeply grateful that our experiment is supported by IFFR. Stay tuned for these femmes and our bodily, strange and playful interventions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Filmmaker<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cyan Bae is a visual artist and researcher with an obsession for lie detectors. Their research method focuses on emotional AI technologies and examines the socio-political implications of algorithmic practices for detecting deception in a trilogy of short experimental documentaries. How to Lie, Femme, and Pass<\/strong> forms the final chapter of the four-year research project. Cyan Bae is co-founder of First Cut, a film collective and curatorial platform, and has been a jury member at Leiden Shorts and the Movies that Matter Festival. IFFR 2026 is set to premiere Cyan’s film Welcome to Set<\/strong> in the RTM programme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About RTM Pitch 2027<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gemeente Rotterdam and VEVAM Fonds support the winning film with a grant of \u20ac25,000 to encourage the development of local film talent and support film and media policy. The RTM Pitch 2027 jury consists of Koen de Rooij, Bas van der Ree and In-Soo Radstake. RTM Pitch 2027 is supported by VEVAM Fonds, G.Ph. Verhagen-Stichting, QISSA and Gemeente Rotterdam.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An overview of previous winners and information about RTM Pitch can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Development Incentive Winner<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the RTM Pitch winner, IFFR announces the winner of the RTM Pitch development incentive. The film project Nos e ke Nos<\/strong> by media maker and presenter Nelly Dos Reis receives \u20ac5,000 of support from IFFR and QISSA \u2013 an agency, community and talent house \u2013 to develop the film plan. With the film project, Nelly Dos Reis tells a story about the upcoming football World championships and the participation of Cape Verde \u2013 perhaps the smallest country in the world \u2013 from the perspective of a teenager in a Cape Verdean community in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\t

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