INPUT 2009 - Warsaw, Poland

From May 10-15, 2009, the capital of Poland hosted the largest international conference for public television, INPUT, organized by Polish Television (Polska Telewizja S.A.)
For the first time it was held in Poland, a Central/Eastern European country that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in 2009.
Therefore the largest group of representatives from public television as well as independent creative professionals and producers from the Eastern European region was invited to participate in the conference. Participants at the annual INPUT conference include the heads and directors of public television stations, authors and producers, workers and co-workers, independent producers, as well as representatives of cultural institutions and audiovisual organizations from around the world. Thus the Warsaw conference may very well have been the greatest public media event not only in Poland, but in all of Central/Eastern Europe.

Each year at INPUT the most interesting and original television programmes from 60 different public television stations from around the world are screened and discussed. During the conference around 1000 people associated with the television industry from every continent meet to:
- promote the idea of public television as a service provided in the public interest present and discuss the finest and most important TV programmes from around the world
- broaden access to the most honest, innovative, courageous, and ambitious programmes
- stimulate development and maintain high production levels in public television around the world
- allow an international exchange of experiences in the field of television production for creative TV professionals living on various continents, working in various countries and drawing on ideas and themes for television programmes from different cultures and traditions.

Sergio Borelli, one of the co-founders of INPUT constantly emphasizes that the goal of INPUT is not to seek common denominators, but to underscore the variety in the programs that are screened. The conference organizers are Polish Television (Telewizja Polska S.A.) and the city of Warsaw.

Shopstewards 2009

The international selection, and the conference planning for INPUT 2009 was done by 18 Shopstewards from 16 countries.

They were:

Arroyo Schroeder, Enrique - Mexico
Bae, Kihyung (Kenny) - South Korea
Carrera Brusotto, Víctor - Spain
Chigorimbo, Stephen - Zimbabwe
Dudkiewicz, Jędrzej - Poland
Eison, Carvin - USA
El-Tahri, Jihan - Egypt
Hsu, John - Taiwan
Józsa, Márta - Hungary
Kantcheva, Youlia - Bulgaria
Michael, Karen - France
Piechota, Lidia - Poland
Rainers, Jacqui - South Africa
Saleh, Liana - Palestine
Salokorpi, Jouko - Finland
Schoch, Johann - Switzerland
Schreiner, Claudia - Germany
Sipos, Pál - Hungary