INPUT Conference coming to Sydney (and Melbourne)

European TV conferenced INPUT is headed to Sydney for the first time, for five days in May.

Delegates will watch some of the world’s latest programs and ask questions of the producers, commissioning editors, and acquisitions executives. Host broadcasters will be the ABC and SBS.

Ahead of the event, the Australian Directors Guild is giving Melbourne members an exclusive early taste on Monday March 26. Three programs will be screened and Greg Waters, ABC Drama Development Manager, and Joseph Maxwell, Commissioning Editor, SBS Documentaries, will be guest speakers while the program makers will participate via Skype.

The Melbourne INPUT event, to be held at the Victorian College of the Arts, 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

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