Event(s)
The Open Frame 2007
The International Festival & Forum on Public Service Broadcasting
The forum will screen the most challenging productions from Asia and the rest of the world, while stimulating reflection on local content production and public service broadcasting issues.
If you have recently directed a documentary, a short fiction film or a television magazine that is innovative (in form or content), creative, challenging or going beyond conventional forms of television language, as well as a genuine expression of your culture, we are interested in screening your work.
This year, the forum will devote a special session on socially-conscious, user-generated content. This session will screen content that has been generated by users (professional or amateur) exclusively for on-line distribution (podcasting platforms, youtube-like clips, PSB on-line open spaces, mobile content, etc.), and will discuss and analyse how these new content forms and formats are providing a space for citizens' participation in the public sphere.
The Public Service Broadcasting Trust of India aims at fostering a public culture of broadcasting that is as exciting and cutting edge, as it is socially responsive and representative of democratic values. In doing this, PSBT seeks to re-fashion the paradigm of radio and television, not at the margins, but in the mainstream and at the very heart of broadcasting.
UNESCO’s objective is to promote the expression of cultural and linguistic diversity through communication by stimulating the production and distribution of diversified content coming from all regions of the world.
Entering a programme
To enter a production, send two DVDs to us and fill the enclosed “Programme Entry Form”. Complete the online registration form making sure that the information is accurate and complete. Enclose pictures or any promotional material if possible.
You can also download the form attached at the end of the page and sent it by mail.
Participation in the Forum
Directors whose productions are selected will be invited to take part in the Forum to present their production and join the discussions.
UNESCO/PSBT will cover the accommodation expenses of selected directors from developing countries whose productions are retained for screening. A few travel grants will also be available to cover air-fares.
The works of this Forum are opened to all television professionals. If you wish to attend covering your own expenses, fill out the personal data on the “programme entry form” and specify that you are registering as an “Observer”.
Working language
The Forum will be held in English. Productions in other languages should be subtitled in English. Entry forms must also be filled in in this language.
Format
Productions should be submitted on DVD (2 copies please).
Deadline for the registration of productions
DVDs and registration forms must reach us by 15 June 2007.
Shipment of DVDs
DVDs should be sent to the following address:
Ms. Rosa M. Gonzalez
Open Frame Forum
Communication Development Division
UNESCO
1, rue Miollis
75015 Paris, France
DVDs cannot be returned.
The final selection will be announced at http://portal.unesco.org/ci/cc no later than 31 July 2007. Please kindly refrain from inquiring prior to this date.
Initiatives associated with the Open Frame Festival
1. PSBT Travelling Festivals / Open Frame prime time in Doordashan
The Public Service Broadcasting Trust is a non-for-profit initiative that represents the coming together of energies to shape the contours of Public Broadcasting in India in a manner that values the public nature of the media in society. PSBT, in partnership with Prasar Bharati Corporation (the national Broadcaster in India), commissions independent filmmakers to produce quality documentaries and public service programmes on its hour-long prime time slot each week, with a potential reach of about 100 million television homes.
If selected for the Forum and upon your agreement PSBT may include your film in its travelling festival of films and air this as part of its screening programme on national public television in India, The Open Frame, on a non commercial basis.
UNESCO’s Audio-visual E-platform
If selected for the Forum, and upon your agreement, your production will be invited to join UNESCO’s Audio-visual e-platform, a highly secured, restricted to professional use, on-line platform which you will be able to manage and use to promote your work at local, regional and international levels. At the same time, UNESCO promotes the platform at the international level with broadcasters, festival organizers, educational institutions and other partners.
You will also be periodically informed about the activities of UNESCO’s Programme for Creative Content, including training, production and distribution possibilities.
For further information about the forum, please contact:
creativecontent@unesco.org
If you have recently directed a documentary, a short fiction film or a television magazine that is innovative (in form or content), creative, challenging or going beyond conventional forms of television language, as well as a genuine expression of your culture, we are interested in screening your work.
This year, the forum will devote a special session on socially-conscious, user-generated content. This session will screen content that has been generated by users (professional or amateur) exclusively for on-line distribution (podcasting platforms, youtube-like clips, PSB on-line open spaces, mobile content, etc.), and will discuss and analyse how these new content forms and formats are providing a space for citizens' participation in the public sphere.
The Public Service Broadcasting Trust of India aims at fostering a public culture of broadcasting that is as exciting and cutting edge, as it is socially responsive and representative of democratic values. In doing this, PSBT seeks to re-fashion the paradigm of radio and television, not at the margins, but in the mainstream and at the very heart of broadcasting.
UNESCO’s objective is to promote the expression of cultural and linguistic diversity through communication by stimulating the production and distribution of diversified content coming from all regions of the world.
Entering a programme
To enter a production, send two DVDs to us and fill the enclosed “Programme Entry Form”. Complete the online registration form making sure that the information is accurate and complete. Enclose pictures or any promotional material if possible.
You can also download the form attached at the end of the page and sent it by mail.
Participation in the Forum
Directors whose productions are selected will be invited to take part in the Forum to present their production and join the discussions.
UNESCO/PSBT will cover the accommodation expenses of selected directors from developing countries whose productions are retained for screening. A few travel grants will also be available to cover air-fares.
The works of this Forum are opened to all television professionals. If you wish to attend covering your own expenses, fill out the personal data on the “programme entry form” and specify that you are registering as an “Observer”.
Working language
The Forum will be held in English. Productions in other languages should be subtitled in English. Entry forms must also be filled in in this language.
Format
Productions should be submitted on DVD (2 copies please).
Deadline for the registration of productions
DVDs and registration forms must reach us by 15 June 2007.
Shipment of DVDs
DVDs should be sent to the following address:
Ms. Rosa M. Gonzalez
Open Frame Forum
Communication Development Division
UNESCO
1, rue Miollis
75015 Paris, France
DVDs cannot be returned.
The final selection will be announced at http://portal.unesco.org/ci/cc no later than 31 July 2007. Please kindly refrain from inquiring prior to this date.
Initiatives associated with the Open Frame Festival
1. PSBT Travelling Festivals / Open Frame prime time in Doordashan
The Public Service Broadcasting Trust is a non-for-profit initiative that represents the coming together of energies to shape the contours of Public Broadcasting in India in a manner that values the public nature of the media in society. PSBT, in partnership with Prasar Bharati Corporation (the national Broadcaster in India), commissions independent filmmakers to produce quality documentaries and public service programmes on its hour-long prime time slot each week, with a potential reach of about 100 million television homes.
If selected for the Forum and upon your agreement PSBT may include your film in its travelling festival of films and air this as part of its screening programme on national public television in India, The Open Frame, on a non commercial basis.
UNESCO’s Audio-visual E-platform
If selected for the Forum, and upon your agreement, your production will be invited to join UNESCO’s Audio-visual e-platform, a highly secured, restricted to professional use, on-line platform which you will be able to manage and use to promote your work at local, regional and international levels. At the same time, UNESCO promotes the platform at the international level with broadcasters, festival organizers, educational institutions and other partners.
You will also be periodically informed about the activities of UNESCO’s Programme for Creative Content, including training, production and distribution possibilities.
For further information about the forum, please contact:
creativecontent@unesco.org
| Start Date | 16-05-2007 |
| End Date | 16-05-2007 |
| Event Type | Festival |
| Event Location | New Delhi, India |
| Organizer | UNESCO - Prasar Bharati Corporation |
