INPUT PROGRAMME May 7-11

May 7 – INPUT Industry Bonus Day & Welcome Reception

Get ahead of the pack with the INPUT Sydney Bonus Industry Day – a new addition in 2012 to extend the INPUT experience. The Bonus Industry Day will offer two special sessions on Monday May 7 to bring commissioning and programme making delegates together before the opening night INPUT Welcome and Reception.

Working With The Region

Venue: Comedy Store, Entertainment Quarter
12:00 – 16:00

We are headlong into the Asian century and all of us in the industry need to build strongly on our relationships with key players in the Asia Pacific Region. Moderated by Ian Booth CEO of Screen West and Chris Oliver State and Industry Relations Screen Australia this special session allows INPUT participants attending from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan to talk about the sorts of programs they make and why. How they can work with other countries. Speakers will include producers, directors, commissioning editors, network representatives and government funding agencies.

Included in this session will be a presentation addressing the premise that Children and youth are the true ‘early-adopters’ of new media, which presents a significant challenge to public broadcasters seeking to remain relevant to this important audience. The session will examine the ways in which ABC Children’s Television is facing this challenge in Australia, and how ABC uses new media to engage with its audience and extend its brands – to areas including Asia. The presentation by Tim Brooke Hunt, Controller ABC3 (the children’s channel) and David Glen (Head of Children’s Multi-platform) will discuss ABC TV’s use of dedicated web sites for different age groups, the importance of Streaming content, the appeal of multi-player Games, the use of Tablet Apps by pre-schoolers, and the ways in which ABC engages with older kids via User Generated Content. A must for those involved in new media

Who’s Who at INPUT

Venue: Comedy Store, Enertainment Quarter
16:15 – 17:15

INPUT participants from all around the world have an opportunity to say who they are and what they or their broadcasters are looking for at INPUT. Speakers will not be limited to commissioning editors but will include funding bodies, production companies and programme makers. Get in early and meet your fellow delegates before the INPUT Welcome and Reception which follows straight after it.

INPUT WELCOME RECEPTION – Monday 7

Venue: Hi Fi, Entertainment Quarter
17:30 – 19:30

MAY 8 - 11 INPUT Screening Programme

Venue: Hoyts Cinemas, Entertainment Quarter
09:00 – 17:00

The INPUT SCREENING PROGRAMME runs from Tuesday 8 till Friday 11 and will involve screenings and discussions of more than seventy programmes running concurrently in three screening rooms. Four of the six sessions each day will be organised around genres or programming themes, namely:

• Drama and Scripted Comedy

• Current Affairs, Social Issues Documentary and Factual

• Culture (including Popular Culture), Arts and History

• New Media / Cross Platform

Genre Networking Lunches for all 4 streams will take place on Tuesday 8, with full details in the Conference Handbook.

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INPUT SPECIAL SESSIONS:

WOMEN & GIRLS: The Role Of Public Media.

Venue: Hoyts Cinemas, Entertainment Quarter
17:30 – 19:00

Public broadcasting leaders from around the world will share and discuss programming around the subject of women and girls and talk about how they are able to connect their audiences to issues that affect everyone. Panellists include:

Amelia Shaw, Multi-Platform Content Advisor, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia)
Carol Hirschfeld, General Manager Production, Maori Television Service (New Zealand)
Christine Hakim, Actress, Producer and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador (Indonesia)
Judy Tam, INPUT President, ITVS Executive Vice President and CFO (United States)
Pari Niemann, Diversity & Coaching Manager, North German Broadcasting (NDR) (Germany)
Raka Gamini, Executive Producer Kundu 2TV (Papua New Guinea)
Tomoko Okutso, Director and Producer, International Co-Production and Acquisition, NHK (Japan)

FICTION FILM AND ITS ROLE IN GERMAN PUBLIC TELEVISION:

Venue: Bavarian Bier Cafe, Entertainment Quarter
12:15 – 13:45

Panel Discussion and Reception sponsored by the Goethe Institut.

Fiction film is a seismograph of the issues in society: for this reason it should be an important part of public television. In Germany, compared to most other countries, the public broadcasters always were, and still are, an integral part of fictional movie production, strongly connected with the public film foundations. With our guests we will discuss what the reasons are for this traditional link between cinema and television, and if the German system could be a role model for other Countries.

PANELISTS

• Olaf Grunert, Comissioning Editior, ARTE G.E.I.E
• Lucas Schmidt, Commissioning Editor, “Das Kleine Fernsehspiel”, ZDF
• Hans Kohl, Head of Production, Goethe-Institut Central Office Munich
• Ulrich Spies, Managing Director, Grimme Award
• Pari Niemann, Comissioning Editor, NDR/ARD Hamburg
• Cornelius Conrad, Commissioning Editor, BR/ARD Munich

Moderator: Maren Niemeyer, Head of TV-Department – Goethe-Institut Central Office Munich

PACIFIC FORUM ON PUBLIC INTEREST TELEVISION:

Venue: PJ Gallaghers Pub, Entertainment Quarter
12:15 – 13:45

Panel Discussion organised by ABC International Development

In this panel, media practitioners from around the Pacific will discuss their efforts in using nascent TV broadcasting to address important social issues in the region. How is public television being used to change attitudes on health and gender-based violence? Address elections and political instability? Respond to climate change and natural disasters?