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May 26th 2009, 08:05
Polish Television’s success as host of INPUT 2009 Back to Index
The International Public Television Conference, INPUT 2009, organized by Polish Television, has just come to an end in Warsaw.
For the first time in its thirty-year history the host country for INPUT was a former member of the Eastern Bloc. “For TVP this was both a huge recognition and challenge, but also a huge responsibility.” said Pawel Paluch, proxy for TVP S.A.’s board of directors.
From Monday to Friday (May 11-15) we saw 82 programs from 37 countries. In three rooms we were able to view an impressive mosaic of programs sent from public broadcasters from all over the world. Thanks to this year’s INPUT we became convinced of the huge diversity of television forms, from feature films, through television shows, educational and public opinion programs to documentary films, which presented different cultures and uncovered some not-so-obvious areas of reality.
The following programs were the most popular: “Air India 182” (directed by Sturl Gunnarsson, CBC, Canada), “Ambres - Dead Man Talking” (directed by Anders Granros, STV, Sweden), “Chicago 10” (directed by Brett Morgan, PBS., USA).
Among Polish programs, the most popular was the TV series “Londoners,” which was made for TVP. The remaining two programs, the animated series “Pucul and Grzechu” and the documentary film “Almost Perfect,” were in the top 15 of the most viewed and discussed programs.
A high turnout was recorded during INPUT’s special sessions concerning new television formats such as “Any Fresh ideas out there? A Journey to New Formats on Public TV,” as well as programs for teenagers, “TV meets young viewers on the web, on the cell, on the screen.”
The evening discussion panels, “Media in the local communities” and “Media and the global crisis” were also very popular. Yet the greatest number of authors and producers were present during the panel discussion concerning “Financing international co-productions from Central and Eastern Europe - chances and perspectives for international distribution.”
Over 900 delegates from 59 countries were accredited for INPUT 2009. Besides Poland, the best represented were Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Norway.
“We managed with the task given to us. I can, with great pleasure, say that the Warsaw conference was evaluated by the INPUT management board, during the closing Saturday meeting, as one of the best in the history of the organization.” said Andrzej Fidyk, a member of INPUT’s board and TVP representative for organizing INPUT 2009.
According to Timo-Erkki Heino from the YLE television in Finland, the head of the National Coordinators of INPUT, “The hosts of this year’s conference did a great job. Everything went smoothly, in a nice atmosphere and the screenings were prepared at the highest level of technical quality.
Noemi Schory, president of the INPUT board of directors, highlighted that this edition of INPUT was very good. “We managed to realize the assumptions we’ve been working on for three years.” she said. Because of the 20th anniversary of the downfall of communism in Central/Eastern Europe, TVP invited 56 representatives from 19 public broadcasting stations from our region to INPUT for the first time. During the meeting of INPUT management representatives and TVP with delegates from the post-communist countries proposals were made to closely co-operate, especially with countries that had never been represented at INPUT before. There were discussions about appointing National Coordinators in a few new countries such as Ukraine, Slovakia, Macedonia, and Azerbaijan.
During INPUT 2009 in Warsaw the annual meeting of representatives of the Goethe Institute from all over the world was also held. The Goethe Institute traditionally holds its meeting in the country a given conference is being held.
