Session Focus: What is the pertinence of bringing back stories from the past and making them into period drama? Scriptwriters, commissioning editors and producers are always looking for new stories and sometimes find them in history. But what material from the past makes successful television fiction for today’s audiences - and why is it pertinent to be revisiting it now? Are these topics still relevant today? What does a period piece add to our understanding? What stories need to be passed on to the next generation? How does historical fiction bring light to the major changes in our society? Come find out why German television broadcast a film in 2018 about three women in the 1970s fighting for equal pay. In an Emmy-winning series, produced by the Chilean broadcasting trust now, we meet one of the many victims of the dictatorship in the 70s. Returning to the 1940s Taiwan remembers its poet and dramatist Roseki.
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The German town of Gelsenkirchen in 1979: by chance Lilli discovers that her husband Kalle gets paid much more than the women at the photo lab where they work, even… -
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The main character in Roseki, Lu He-Ruo, is an important writer and vocalist in the 1940s in Taiwan, who was arrested during the White Terror and disappeared afterwards.… -
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The series consists of 16 x 5min short films that narrate true stories based on the cases that make up the Rettig Report, information from the library of the Association…