Why Should I Bother? TV as a Playground for Personal Missions

As ideas for TV programmes are based on a creative process, personal issues of the director or writer often determine the content of the programme. But can you take it for granted that the viewer - not being familiar with the director’s or producer’s passion, will follow them on their personal missions and stay to watch the programme? What does it need to make a personal issue relevant and interesting for an anonymous audience? In this session we will take a look at some therapeutic programmes, some programmes with a global message told from a personal perspective, productions that settle the past, warn of the future or simply try to add to the good within society.

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Blame Omar

duration 50 minutes 8 seconds

Blame Omar

Blame Omar

From UPF

Following the Dutch defeat to Russia (3-1) in the quarterfinals of the European Cup soccer competition in 2008, documentary filmmaker Michiel Brongers left the Amsterdam…
I want to thank life

duration 50 minutes 15 seconds

I want to thank life

I want to thank life

From UPF

Roar Christiansen, a photographer, has followed Wenche, an AIDS infected drug addict over 15 years. Through hundreds of stills and hours of video we get to know her life…
Relate

duration 48 minutes 43 seconds

Relate

Relate

From UPF

Relate takes a hard and honest look at various troubled relationships - whether family relationships or romantic. Whether it’s a plea for forgiveness or a plea for…
Telling Amy's Story

duration 41 minutes 52 seconds

Telling Amy's Story

Telling Amy's Story

From UPF

Leaving her parents and young children to wait, Amy stepped from the car onto her driveway. Minutes later, her husband, walking alone from the house calmly said…

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