At the beginning of September, Henriette De Villiers, dean AFDA Johannesburg and Francois Smit, head of Postgraduate Studies and executive committee member of the South African Communications Association (SACOMM), were appointed as National Coordinators for the International Public Television Conference – INPUT.
Not only has De Villiers presented programmes herself at INPUT, in 2017, she was also a moderator who hosted several sessions. Smit was the International Selection Coordinator for INPUT from 2006 to 2013 in Berlin.
The National Coordinators are all respected TV professionals, who are appointed by the INPUT International Board. Their task is to keep feeding innovative and ground-breaking programmes to INPUT and to send those programmes to an International Selection where, in turn, the most fitting for the upcoming conference is selected. National Coordinators represent INPUT to their regional constituencies.
INPUT is hosted annually in a different country and showcases television programmes made in the interest of the audience from around the world. Global trends, challenges and solutions are discussed and programme ideas are shared.
INPUT is open to all Public Service Broadcasters around the world, as well as production companies or individuals producing programmes for broadcast on public service channels.
After a national Pre-Selection, the National Coordinators submit productions to the International Selection which will be held at the beginning of 2018.
Call for Submissions
South African TV makers are invited to consider submitting their productions by no later than Monday, 20 November 2017 for the South African Pre-Selection.
INPUT is looking for recent public service television and online productions that are provocative, courageous or break new grounds in four categories.
Submitted productions may not have been broadcast before 1 November 2016. Programmes that were made for television but have not yet been broadcast are also eligible.
In 2018, the conference will be held in New York.
The Brooklyn 2018 Conference will focus on:
- “Fifty is the new Thirty“
- Programmes that are especially attractive for the audience aged 30 to 50.
- Submissions can be factual, fiction or entertainment programmes.
- Web programmes for young people
- Political Comedy
- Tailor-Made for INPUT
Edgy and surprising programmes that don’t fall into any of the three categories but promise to stir lively debates.
Should your production be submitted to the International Selection and selected for screening at the conference, your production will be presented to the Delegates who have registered for INPUT 2018 Brooklyn. Presentations will happen in sessions, always followed by discussions.
For this reason, all productions screened at INPUT have to be accompanied by a key person involved with the programme like the director, author, commissioning editor or producer.
Submitters will receive a code to register this person without having to pay the conference fee of 170 euro. The submitter is responsible to bear all travel and accommodation costs for this person who will be contacted by INPUT prior to the conference to prepare the discussion. The attendance of an INPUT conference is open to all media professionals. The main feature of the conference is the professional discussion, which follows each screening of a production.
For the South African Pre-Selection, please send three English subtitled DVDs to National Coordinators no later than Monday, 20 November 2017:
Henriette De Villiers & François Smit
AFDA
41 Frost Avenue
Auckland Park
Gauteng, 2092
Please include contact details of the person submitting the production and as much information as possible to contextualise your submission (Audience/Broadcast Times/Channels/Cultural Relevance etc.). Only once your production has been pre-selected for the International Selection will you be contacted to submit official submission forms.
AFDA sees this opportunity to engage with the South African TV industry not only on a content level, but also a chance to be the independent and inclusive representation the SA TV Industry needs internationally.
“We look forward to be able to see the content South Africa is putting on air and how it is relevant in a global context,” says Smit.
De Villiers adds that “the value of INPUT, not only for the local industry is immeasurable – being a part of this professional community will not only have a carry home value for them – our students too, the future of the industry, will be able to engage with the themes and topics and productions that are screened and discussed at INPUT. We look forward to engaging with your productions!”
More information: www.input-tv.org
