It is an unparalleled opportunity to keep abreast of the rapidly changing world of television programme making, to be entertained and to dip into a host of cultures around the world at the same time.
The preliminary events kick off next week.
A series of mini ‘Input's' are being staged around Africa in the lead-up to the international screening conference in May next year, the biggest global TV Extravaganza ever held on the continent. And, from November 2 – 4, 2007, the host broadcaster the SABC and the Goethe Institute will bring the crème de la crème of the current travelling Input collection to Johannesburg.
This mini-INPUT will feature:
Other films include Dresden (Germany); One Minute to Midnight (Australia); Our Secret Archives (Switzerland); Girl in A Mirror (Australia); Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (USA); The Chaser's War on Everything (Australia); and Souvenirs (Israel).
The INPUT conference next year will showcase Africa's Television talent and innovative content directions. It is also a business tourism opportunity par excellence with 1500 delegates from about 50 countries (outside of Africa) expected. These delegates are mainly top public television executives, commissioning editors, producers and filmmakers.
Within days of the Input 2008 Call for Entries being sent out recently, local filmmakers responded by beginning to submit programmes immediately.
INPUT is an annual weeklong showcase where the rules of broadcasting are challenged and redefined… the only international event that focuses specifically on cutting edge, public interest television. This is only the second time in 30 years that this prestigious event is being held in Africa.
INPUT (the International Public Television organisation), founded in 1977, exists to:
INPUT has organised international television's most important and influential Annual Screening Conference for 30 years. This unique event — held in a different country each year — encourages the development of public service television by screening and debating the most outstanding programmes from around the world. It also organises many other activities throughout the year in dozens of countries. In doing so, INPUT provides a unique professional development opportunity for producers, directors, writers, students and all those — especially independent producers — who contribute to public television throughout the world.
INPUT 2008 will be held at Joburg's Sandton Convention Centre from May 4 – 10, 2008. It will be a pan African event with the assistance of broadcasters and industry professional in more than 25 countries across our Continent.
The theme for INPUT 2008 is ‘Back to the Beginning'. In the past three decades Input was only once held in Africa, in Cape Town in 2001.
The special mini-INPUT session at the Goethe in Johannesburg is part of the continental activities in the lead-up to Input 2008 in Johannesburg next year. The aim is to involve as many African filmmakers, television professionals and students in the planning and execution of INPUT 2008 as possible.
This mini-INPUT is being held November 2 – 4, 2007 at the Goethe Institute in Johannesburg. For more email: or go to: www.input2008.org.za / www.input-tv.org.
