MINI-INPUT: BEST OF PUBLIC TELEVISION
Screenings And Discussions
(INPUT is the consortium of International Public Service Broadcasters)
The presentation will showcase some of the best public service broadcasting films and programmes from around the world, exploring unconventional and new ways of telling stories. It will emphasise the role of documentaries in public service broadcasting and the ways in which the agendas of broadcasting need to and can be expanded in keeping with the digital revolution.
Iris Yudai and Deniz Sertkol will lead the analyses and discussions around the films and programmes.
Iris Yudai is an Executive Producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Manitoba, responsible for commissioning and overseeing documentaries with independent producers and programming the summer TV series Absolutely Manitoba. She is also a trainer and mentor, regularly leading training sessions for television, radio and digital producers. She has extensive experience in facilitating development sessions for programmers and presenting workshops on writing and storytelling. She has also led the development and production of several radio programmes, on CBC Radio One
Deniz Sertkol works for the Film, TV and Radio Department of the Goethe-Institut Headquarters in Munich and is involved with monitoring and coordinating operations across various German public radio and public television companies. She has earlier worked at the Feature Film and TV Film Department at the Franco-German Channel ARTE G.E.I.E. and for several film festivals, including Berlinale Forum, Berlin Critics‘ Week and Filmfest Munich. She has also free-lanced as film critic for several years
Inauguration: ABHIJIT DASGUPTA, National Coordinator, INPUT
Abhijit Dasgupta has been associated with news since the early 60s and with television from the early 90s. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India and also trained at BBC London; AIBD Malaysia; NDR Germany and ABC Australia. He was Station Director, Doordarshan; Bureau Chief, Worldwide Television News; Production-in-Charge, ESPN; and Production Head, NDTV and Aajtak for their election telecasts. His films have received two National and twenty eight international awards. Abhijit is the National coordinator for India and a past Board Member of International Public Television
Films
Three Thousand ( ‘Asinnajaq; 14 min; Canada)
Director: Isabella-Rose Weetaluktuk
‘My father was born in a spring igloo—half snow, half skin. I was born in a hospital, with jaundice and two teeth.’ With quiet command, the young Inuk artist plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe – of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the past, present and future of Inuit in a radiant new light. Delving into the NFB’s vast archive, she casts a net across the complicated history of Inuit cinematic representation, harvesting fleeting truths and fortuitous accidents from a range of sources.
Human Smugglers (59 min; Denmark)
Directors: Poul-Erik Heilbuth, Georg Larsen
For the first-time human smugglers reveal – on camera and unmasked – the secrets of their trade. The Film offers a real picture of the industry that has brought millions of migrants to Europe. It gives us the chance to open doors that have been closed for years and see the whole debate from a quite new angle.
(Collaboration: Public Service Broadcasting Trust)
