 May 10 Wednesday │Morning Sessions 09:00~13:00
Session Leader: Béatrice Barton
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 (58')Documentary,Australia
 Director Nick Torrens Total budget 285,000 US$
Funding sources Australian Broadcasting Corp & Australian Film Finance Corp
For 4,000 years China largely succeeded, both culturally and economically, in keeping the rest of the world at bay. Following its introduction of reforms in the 1980's, however, including a transition from a socialist to a market economy, China allowed multinational corporations to set up shop. Now that the world's most populous nation is clearly on a fast track to capitalism, American investors are eagerly exploring ways to exploit China's new 'economic miracle. 'THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY follows the efforts of wealthy New York investment banker Mart Bakal and his well-connected Hong Kong business partner Vincent Lee as they join forces in an effort to create the perfect mix of economic and political opportunity in China. Bakal is enthusiastic about the extraordinary business opportunity - as he says, "Within 20 years China will equal the U.S. in economic strength and power" - but first he and Lee must figure out how to overcome a frustrating array of cultural and legal obstacles. |
Session Leader: Pat van Heerden
Compelling issues that border on obsessions within two European societies. This session looks at two recurring themes: the Nazi period in Germany and the Mafia in Italian life. These programs lead the public to new insights about history – and its recurring importance for current day affairs. The films are a result of painstaking research, careful writing and considerable expense… a way beyond these national obsessions?
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 (90')Drama,Germany
Director: Heinrich Breloer Key crew size 80 Days editing 108 days
Funding sources Filmstiftung NRW / FFF / Media II Total budget 12 Mio US$
A three-part docu-drama based on the life of Albert Speer, the master architect of the Third Reich, the Minister of Armaments and Adolf Hitler’s closest friend. Seduced by power or craving it? Breloer tears open the shimmering veil of myths and half-truths obscuring this central figure of the Nazi regime. A man of profound contradictions, Speer was a cultivated intellectual who allied himself with the most horrifying criminal of the 20th century. A man from the upper classes, schooled in the humanities, who, as Minister of Armaments, controlled Germany’s wartime industry and used slave labor to increase production... A brilliant architect willing to design and build the ostentatious monuments and megalomaniac visions of a doomed erman Reich. A protégé who turned against his master during the last months of
Hitler’s reign. Speer was the only Nazi leader at the Nuremberg trials to admit responsibility for the regime’s actions. For the first time ever, and exclusively for this production, three of Albert Speers’ six children -- an architect, a politician and a doctor -- were interviewed about their father and their memories of him. Confronted by Heinrich Breloer’s findings, they, too, undertake a painful attempt to uncover the truth about their father. Fictional re-enactments played out by a cast of leading German film and TV stars infuse the documentary character of the miniseries with emotional immediacy. The three parts of the docu-drama follow three different genres: 1. A children’s and war drama that focuses on the years of Speer’s greatest power as seen through the eyes of the children. 2. A courtroom drama set during the Nuremberg trials (presented for Input) 3. a prison drama portraying the twenty years of Speer’s imprisonment.
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Session Leader: Ann Julienne
What happens when an interesting project comes along that doesn't really fit into a particular slot? Can public broadcasters risk commissioning these programmes? Two programmes cannily mix genres in order to tell gripping stories.
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 (83') Performing Arts,Canada
Director Kim Collier Key crew size 25 Days editing 65 days Total budget 1,400,000 US$
Funding sources CBC, Canadian Telvision Fund, Genome Canada, Canadian Western Independent Producer's Fund, BC Film
Mixing music, dance and humor The Score explores the revolutionary implications of the world of genetics, ethics and morality. Dr. Lynn Magnusson leads a cutting edge lab that is racing toward a significant genetic discovery in the battle against cancer. A composer struggles to create a "score" seemingly connected to Magnusson's own personal struggle with her own hereditary link to the genetic disorder, Huntington's disease. While Magnusson is fixated on her work and the financial success of the lab she is simultaneously plagued by her own ticking biological clock. When she discovers she is pregnant after a torrid affair with her promising lab assistant the drama intensifies and the composer's musical score becomes a powerful metaphor for biological determinism. If a musical note is wrong, does it ruin the composition and does it matter? Should Magnusson deliver a child that has a 50% change of a devastating disease, can her lab win the race against its international competitors to unlock a medical mystery? |
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Director Pola Rapaport Days editing 50 days Total budget 326.256 US$
 "Writer of O" is a creative documentary about the woman who wrote "Story of O" and who concealed her identity using the pseudonym of an unknown writer, Pauline Reage. Her secret, obsessively guarded for 40 years was finally unmasked in 1994 in a revelatory article in The New Yorker: Dominique Aury, editor at the great French publisher Gallimard, secretary of Jean Paulhan at the Nouvelle Revue Francaise and his longtime clandestine lover. The film explores the mystery of the writer's dual identity, and relates her love story with Jean Paulhan (for whom the book was primarily intended), a central figure on the French literary scene. It also evokes the cultural atmosphere of Paris in the 50s, and the atmosphere of scandal that surrounded the publication. Halfway between documentary and fiction, the film combines archival footage, interviews with some figures related to the Histoire d'O affair, and fictional recreations of scenes from the novel. |
May 10 Wednesday │Afternoon Sessions 14:00~18:00
Shopsteward: Michel F. Gélinas
Guests:
Daniel Asselin, Director, Sports Programs, SRC-CBC (French Network), Canada
Lars Schepull, Prix Europa, Germany
Dean Wen Yuan, PTS, Taiwan (袁定文)
“They have the budgets!”
”Sports take too much space on Public Television!”
”Get rid of ‘em!”
“We need more!”
You’ve heard it. Maybe (just maybe...) you have said or thought it yourself ?! What is the role of Sports programmes in the realm of Public TV? To what extent? What kind of programmes? Is Sport only about performances? Can Sports programmes have such an impact as to change values or accomodate new ones? What’s the role of Sports in a network/station’s scheduling? Could it be that revenues (the dirty word!) from that type of programmes allow you to make your programmes ?
Here is a different session: a unique occasion to look at the relations between Sports and Television with some of those who make the decisions, some of those who don’t like their decisions; look at some programmes done in different parts of the world and - above all - to have a reality check on those guys...
It has been often said that Sport is the most important cultural phenomenon in our societies. You want the proof of that? Are Sports using Television or Television using Sports? How to manage those liaisons so regularly declared dangereuses?Are there different ways to create Sports programmes or programmes about Sports on Public television?
This session has the right people, the programmes and lots of questionning. All it needs now is to hear your voice! Let’s talk broadcasting issues....
Session Leader: Heaton Dyer
Three ‘star’ programs from the ‘local’ neighborhood.
These programs are each very different, and each takes on a difficult proposition – with considerable success.
From Japan, a provocative documentary that dares to take on a subject which is still very sensitive for the governments of both Japan and China.
From Hong Kong, a program which puts the camera in the hands of its subjects
And From…tbd (Indonesia… Mongolia… Nepal!)
My Dear Child of the Enemy
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(52')Documentary,Japan
Director Toshihiko SATO / Kenji SAITO Key crew size 11 Days editing 30 days
Funding sources License fees Total budget 170,000 US$
In Changchun, in the northeastern reaches of the P.R.C., a dwindling number of senior citizens live in the municipally run apartment building known as the China-Japan Amity House. The half-dozen seniors remaining are all foster parents of the Japanese war orphans left in Manchuria after the Soviet invasion in 1945. Before the war, over a million Japanese had been living in Manchuria. With defeat came deaths, family break-ups, and abandoned children. Chinese foster parents then faced persecution for aiding “children of the enemy”. In the 1980s, under a bilaterally coordinated Sino-Japanese repatriation plan, almost all the war orphans chose permanent residence in Japan. Now, parents and children live apart. But having returned to what should be their “beloved homeland” many of the war orphans find both their Japanese language skills, and Japanese governmental assistance, insufficient to secure employment. Sixty-five percent live on welfare. And though they want to visit their foster parents back in China, which would entail a temporary suspension of their public assistance, making such visits difficult to manage financially. This documentary introduces cameras into the China-Japan Amity House, and into the lives of some of the war orphans. From these vantage points, we observe how parents and children, trapped between the flawed plans of both countries, struggle to preserve parental ties that transcend considerations of blood. |
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Through the eyes of Alexander Stille, author of the groundbreaking book Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, the film is the behind-the-scenes story of the most important anti-Mafia trial in history and of the two men who made it possible: Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. 
