The Best of INPUT, the International Public Television Screening Conference

February 6, 4:30 PM

Events take place February 6 - 10, 2007

More than 1,000 submissions from over sixty countries are reviewed each year by an international jury of peers, resulting in a final selection of 85-100 of the world’s most provocative productions. The point of INPUT is not just to screen these works, but rather to discuss and debate them among television professionals.

Co-sponsored by American University’s Center for Social Media, Goethe-Institut / German Cultural Center, Silverdocs, AFI, US Independents, WHUT-TV/Channel 32, Howard University, and Women in Film and Video, in cooperation with INPUT, the International Public Television Screening Conference.

The “Best of INPUT” event in Washington features several evenings of screenings and discussions of programs selected for INPUT 2005 (San Francisco) and 2006 (Taipei).

Schedule of screenings:

Wednesday, February 7, 7:00 pm
SilverDocs/American Film Institute, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD
Sight (Without Seeing) Voir (sans les yeux)
Belgium/France, 2004, 89 minutes, documentary
Director: Marie Mandy
Blindness as you have never seen it! In this paradoxical visual journey into the mental world of blindness, blind and partially sighted people take us to the limits of the visual—explaining and making us as viewers feel what they do not see. At the end of the road: another way to see, without eyes, but with all the senses. A way for us as sighted persons to question ourselves about our own perception of reality and the visual tyranny that we have created for ourselves.

Reception at 6:00 pm preceding the screening.

Thursday, February 8, 6:30 pm
Center for Social Media
Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center, 3rd Floor
American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
La Sierra
Colombia/US, 53 min., documentary
Directors: Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez
More than 30,000 people have been killed over the last ten years in Colombia’s bloody civil conflict, in which left-wing guerillas fight against the government and illegal right-wing paramilitary groups. Recently, as guerillas and paramilitaries sought to control marginal city neighborhoods, urban gangs aligned themselves with each side. In this way, the national conflict was translated into a brutal turf war that pitted adjacent barrios against each other. The documentary La Sierra explores life over the course of a year in one such barrio (La Sierra, in Medellin), through the prism of three young lives.

Friday, February 9, 6:30 pm
Goethe-Institut Washington, 812 Seventh Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Stroke (Am seidenen Faden)
Germany, 2004, 111 min., documentary, in German with English subtitles
Director: Katarina Peters
Soon after getting married, Boris Baberkoff, a 33-year-old cellist, suffers a stroke in New York. His wife, film director Katarina Peters, instinctively reaches for her DVD camera. To come to terms with the shock, she documents her husband’s extraordinary healing process. A portrait of a couple in extraordinary circumstances emerges: instead of letting themselves be overwhelmed by the daily struggle, the two discover new creative strength within themselves and, through that, new hope for the future. No charge. RSVP to 202-289-1200, ext. 179 or

Read more about INPUT in the Current Newspaper: http://current.org/international/inter0623input.shtml.

More information:
INPUT: www.input-tv.org
INPUT 2007 will be taking place in May 6-12, 2007 in Lugano, Switzerland! For more information: www.input2007.org