Dispatch from South Korea
Discovering Docs at the INPUT 2011 Public Media Conference
"I had the honor and pleasure to attend the 2011 INPUT conference in Seoul, South Korea earlier this month. INPUT is an annual conference that gathers public media producers, filmmakers, broadcasters and distributors from around the globe to watch and discuss the best public broadcasting programs of the previous year.
Since its beginnings in the late '70s, INPUT has expanded from an event to promote the exchange of ideas between American and European public media producers to include participants and programs from all continents.
This year's schedule included programs and films from more than 25 countries, and a handful of selections from the United States (three of which aired on POV!):
• Food, Inc. (POV 2010)
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (POV 2010)
• StoryCorps Shorts (POV 2010)
• Independent Lens' The Parking Lot Movie
• ITVS's Web-only shorts series FUTURESTATES
• Penn State's Telling Amy's Story
• Afropop's NORA
I'd never had the opportunity to attend INPUT, so I was thrilled to talk about our Food, Inc. social media campaign as part of a panel titled "Changing the World: Strategies to Make a Programme More Effective!" It was scheduled for the last day of the conference, so I spent the first three watching more films than I had ever seen in a 72-hour period — and I work in public media! I saw films from far-flung (to me!) locales, Europe, the Balkans, Asia...
Since I produce content for the POV website, I was particularly interested in the online projects of the European network Arte, Korean broadcaster KBS and others."
POV's digital director, Theresa Riley, reports on her experience attending this year's INPUT, a public media conference held from May 9-12, 2011 in Seoul, South Korea.
Full article: PBS.org
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