Discussion of television programmes opens

Accra, April 6, GNA - A three-day conference of screening and discussing public television programmes, dubbed "2005's Mini-INPUT", has opened in Accra to discuss questions of technique, best practices and experiences and share ideas.

This year's Mini-INPUT "International Public Television" would show programmes from 16 countries, according to the German Ambassador in Ghana Dr Peter Linder, who opened the programme on Tuesday. He said the situation of Ghanaian TV-Production would certainly be a key item of discussion.

Accra's Mini-Input, organised by the GBC, Goethe Institute and National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI), would be screening programmes from Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas and trigger discussions among the experts from the Ghanaian film industry and the Media.

There are about 100 persons that could be called the core group in this respect.

Dr Linder said INPUT is an organisation of volunteers, run by an international board of 16 renowned broadcasters from a dozen countries. It is dedicated to the idea that public television should be public service in the public interest. It organises an international screening conference of the 80 world's best TV-productions every year in September. This is a global event of highest importance and reputation in the TV-world.

Dr Linder said as not all producers could make it every year to the annual INPUT screening conference, there had for some years now the practice of so-called Mini-INPUTS on country-level, copying the international conference within one country.

The moderators would be Madam Monique Phoba from Benin and Mr Kwame Akuffo Anoff-Ntow from GBC, who will represent West Africa at this year's INPUT in San Francisco in September.