INPUT 2009 - Call for Submissions

ENTRY DEADLINE:  15 January 2009

WHEN:  INPUT 2009 - 10-15 May 2009

WHERE:  Warsaw, Poland

GENRE:  TV Specific, TV Fiction & TV Documentary

SUBMISION FORM

The International Public Television Screening Conference (INPUT) is now accepting submissions for INPUT 2009 - Warsaw, Poland.

The process of submitting productions for INPUT is open from October 2008 till 15 January 2009.

Productions are submitted to the National Coordinators (NC’s).

Countries without NC’s are represented by the International Selection Coordinator. Please ill out the Submission Form (see above) and forward a signed copy of the Submission Form with two DVD's (as for NC represented countries) to Max Hofmann, at the physical address on this page.

INPUT challenges the set-laws of broadcasting and is looking for programmes that reflect this. Selected productions will be screened during the 2009 Conference in Warsaw, Poland.
INPUT is a public TV Conference, not a festival or a competition. Programmes that challenge the norms of broadcasting form the core of an INPUT Conference.    

The Process:

NC’s submit productions within their national quota and within the genre quota (1/3 Fiction, 1/3 TV Specific and 1/3 TV Documentary) to the International Selection by mid-January. Two DVD’s and a complete submission form is essential for the International Selection.
In mid-February, at the International Selection, Shopstewards prepare the conference programme by jointly viewing and discussing all submitted productions and selecting the best/most fitting productions from the submitted productions.
The International Selection Coordinator informs the NC’s about the selected productions they have submitted by the end of February.

The NC’s inform the submitters and ask them to send broadcast quality Digital Betacam (DigiBeta’s) to the Conference Hosts and to register the delegate/s who will present the production to the conference delegates abiding strict deadlines, which will be communicated with the production submitter well in advance.

No fees are charged for submitting a programme to INPUT.

The Conditions:

Submitting a production for INPUT means to submit a filled out submission form, with two DVD copies of the production and accepting the 10 conditions and rules that apply:
1. Productions produced or broadcast after 1 January 2007 are elgible. It is not essential that programmes have had to be broadcast, but it must be clear that programmes have been produced for television. 
2. Productions submitted to the conference may not include any commercial advertising.
3. A co-production will be regarded as the submission of whichever organisation submits it.
4. All co-production partners must be named on the submission form. It will be presumed by INPUT and the conference host that the other co-producers have agreed to the programme being submitted.
5. All productions screened at INPUT will be presented by a Key Staff member such as the Director, Author or Producer. The submitting company is responsible to bear all costs to and from the conference for this staff member unless an agreement is reached between the conference hosts and the production submitter before the programme is screened during the conference.
6. The conference host and/or INPUT shall have the right to release stills and excerpts of up to 3 minutes from any submission for screening free of charge by TV stations reporting on the conference or for use in the internet or other media.
7. All graphic material sent in by the entrants is released free of charge for use in all publications about the conference (press, printed material, Internet etc.).
8. Freight, customs and insurance costs for the shipment of entries and accompanying material shall be borne by the submitter.
9. The conference host will keep the DigiBeta cassettes of all submissions and all productions screened during the conference for its archive and for use in the INPUT archive.
10. INPUT may use all productions screened during the annual conference strictly for non-profit and educational events such as Mini-INPUT, Best of INPUT, Post INPUT etc. The screening of the submitted production – in full or in part – shall not occur until the organisers of such INPUT events have informed the submitters beforehand about their intention to use the production at such an event.

Please use the .PDF Document "Reference for Submissions" as a guide when filling out the Submission Form.