INPUT / … / … / Opening Session: Getting Started!

Judy Tam, President of INPUT and the Hosting Team of INPUT 2017, Thessaloniki welcome the Delegates on Pier 1. To acquire the taste for the typical INPUT feel join us when we take the first steps into this year’s conference. Claudia Schreiner, long time affiliate of INPUT, will present the first programme, spotlighting Thessaloniki. During the Greek Recession, over 1,000 factories closed. One of them, VIOME in Thessaloniki, was occupied by the factory’s former workers and reopened in an effort to achieve sustainable self-management. This story is told in the documentary Next Stop Utopia. The director, Apostolos Karakasis, has produced over 20 films with the local public broadcaster ERT, which also found its own doors closed in 2013. Today ERT is back in operation legitimately. Public Service Broadcasters can do more than produce great programmes, they can make a difference, start campaigns and even trigger a whole country to build a million nesting boxes! Jacomien Nijhof will introduce you to a very successful project by Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company. An educational reality format takes philosophy to the streets! It is not easy to surprise Panagiotis Trakaliaridis, expert for tv formats, with a new tv format - True Lies from Argentinia managed. Let’s see why? We finish with a highly controversial black-comedy series from the Netherlands, Stefano Semeria will discuss with us whether our Dutch colleagues invented a groundbreaking genre.