Press release from INPUT
INPUT, the television industry’s most free thinking event, is coming to Australia for the very first time in May 2012. Over five days in Sydney, from 7th – 11th May, delegates will watch television’s latest programs across every genre, ask questions of the year’s most interesting producers, and network with hundreds of international commissioning editors, acquisitions executives and producer colleagues.
Ahead of INPUT SYDNEY, the ADG, in partnership with INPUT, is offering Perth an early taste of the INPUT experience on Wednesday March 28. Three fascinating and provocative television programs will be screened and the program makers will participate via Skype after each screening to talk about their programs.
The Perth INPUT event, to be held at the FTI Cinema, will screen:
BLOOD IN THE MOBILE, an investigate documentary about the dark, bloody side of mobile phones we don't see in the advertisements. This documentary shows the disturbing connection between our cell phones and the civil war in the Congo. BLOOD IN THE MOBILES is an intriguing consumer-activist film about our responsibility for that conflict and about corporate social responsibility, a story in which the film maker himself becomes a protagonist.
Produced by: Ole Tornbjerg
Directed by: Frank Poulsen
Broadcaster: Danmarks Radio-DR, Denmark
SONG OF LUNCH, a BBC2 adaptation of Christopher Reid's narrative poem, commissioned for National Poetry Day, starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. SON OF LUNCH tells the story of a book editor (Alan Rickman) who, 15 years after their break-up, meets his former love (Emma Thompson) for a nostalgic lunch at the Soho restaurant they used to frequent. As the wine flows, the couple rakes over their failed relationship.
Produced by: Pier Wilkie, BBC Drama
Directed by: Niall MacCormick
Broadcaster: BBC, UK
STORYCORPS – Q&A. Since 2003, StoryCorps has been recording and preserving the voices of everyday people, one conversation at a time. In this episode Joshua Littman, a 12 year old boy with Asperger's syndrome, interviews his mother, Sarah.
Produced by: Dave Isay
Directors: Rauch Brothers
Broadcaster: PBS (POV), USA
You may have heard about INPUT, but this is your chance to get a taste of the event and see why it is unique. INPUT SYDNEY director Julia Overton will illustrate how INPUT works. She will be joined, via Skype, by a representative of each program after their show screens and you will have a chance participate in one of these lively INPUT Q&A sessions. The Q&A’s that follow screenings are an essential part of the INPUT experience. Confirmed to represent their programs are Frank Poulsen (BLOOD IN THE MOBILE), Pier Wilkike or Niall MacCormick (SONG OF LUNCH) and The Rauch Brothers (STORYCOPS – Q&A)
The evening is expected to run just over three hours and has been made possible through the generous support of ScreenWest.
The event will be held at 7pm on Wednesday 28th March at the FTI Cinema, 92 Adelaide St, Fremantle. Tickets will be $15 full and $5 concession (including ADG & AWG members). Reservations can be made by calling FTI on (08) 9431 6700 or emailing fti@fti.asn.au. All payments will be made at the door.
The full INPUT SYDNEY program will be available towards the end of March at www.inputsydney.com. Cost of registration is just 100 Euros.
Host broadcasters for INPUT SYDNEY are the ABC and SBS.