Mini-INPUT at ITVS

Annisa Kau, the Broadcast & Distribution Coordinator at ITVS, reports on a Mini-INPUT festival held for the ITVS staff last March. Now that INPUT 2012 is concluded, it's time to start planning for Mini-INPUTS to be held across the country. Contact Amy Shumaker (shumaker@scetv.org) or Betsy Newman (bnewman@scetv.org) if you're interested in organizing a screening in your community. 

Here are a shot of the ITVS staff at their screening, and Annisa's report:

 During the last week of March, we held a weeklong mini-INPUT festival for the staff here at ITVS. We showed programs from the Best of INPUT 2011 that were showcased in Seoul, Korea. Judy Tam, the President of INPUT and ITVS's CFO, gave an introduction about INPUT to open the weeklong screenings. 

A variety of programs, mainly documentaries, were selected to showcase the diversity of content that are on public television from around the world. On Thursday, we screened a selection of programs we felt would surprise an American public television audience. We used these clips to discuss the varying missions and mandates of public television around the world in comparison to our own expectation of public broadcasting in the United States. 

This was the schedule: 

Monday, March 26th: 

• Blood In the Mobile 

Tuesday, March 27th:

• Cleveland vs Wall Street 

Wednesday, March 28th: 

• The Game of Death

Thursday, March 29th:

• You Called That Television (excerpts plus discussion): 
• Hardy Bucks
• 20x Brandenburg - Warriors without Enemies
• Barrier Free Variety Show 

Friday, April 1st: 

• The Green Wave 
• Tablo Goes to Stanford

 Thank you so much for providing us with the INPUT collection to choose from. It's always fun to be able to experience television from around the world.

Best, 

Annisa