8th International TV/Producers' Seminar Chiang Mai (Thailand) 17 - 21 October 2009
The 8th TV/Producers' Seminar will take place in Chiang Mai, Thailand
From the 17th to the 21st of October, the Empress Hotel in Chiang Mai will host the Congress of SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication. It is in the context of this Congress that our "TVdesk" will organize the 8th TV/Producers Seminar (1). It will be an opportunity to show your selected television programmes not only to the participants of the seminar, but to all those attending the congress, members of SIGNIS, leaders of Catholic media institutions from all parts of the world.
The emphasis of the seminar will be on childrens' programmes and on creativity.
The programme :
This seminar will last 5 days (Thailand is worthy of a longer stay!) We invite you to join Chiang Mai (there are international connections via Bangkok) on Friday October 16.
On Saturday October 17, the participants are invited to a special cultural orientation day and exposure to Thailand's Northern Capital (day trip). Don't miss this day by arriving late. Our guests have promissed to share their cultural richnesses... nothing to do with artificial tourists tours... I'm sure, you will be enriched by the experience. Bring your cameras...
The seminar continues on Sunday 18, Monday 19 and Wednesday 20.
We have aleady collected a serie of programmes on children, childrens' rights or remarkable for their creativity. We invite you to discover two of the programmes already received: (click on the image to open the streaming)
The first one, "Patrick's Kingdom" is a production of KRO, the Catholic television station of the Netherlands. The story is about the 10-year old Patrick from Suriname, who is secretely in love with the prettiest girl in his class, the turkish/dutch Yahide. (The programme shows the multicultural aspect of society in the country). When teacher Rob is giving out the parts of the Christmasmusical, Patrick desperately wants to play the leadingpart of Jozef, because Yahide is going to play Maria. Unfortunately he is choosen to play Baltasar, the black king. Patrick won't give up and tries to find ways to play Jozef anyhow. Will he succeed to stand side by side Yahide on stage ?
The second programme we invite you to discover is about "The Garbage children of Cebu" in the Philippines. It is part of a documentary serie produced by Steyl Medien (Germany) under the title "Limitless". The misery of those who bring up their children on the garbage tips is shocking. The sole ray of hope on this burning Philippine garbage tip is the German priest, Heinz Kulüke. He is, in fact, a university professor of philosophy - however his encounters with the garbage people have changed his life.
On Wednesday 21th, the results of the seminar will be presented to all participants of the Congress. In the evening, we will celebrate during a gala dinner the 80 years of SIGNIS.
Registration
Five days registration, including the participation at the seminar, lunches and breaks, the Congress closing awards ceremony and dinner, the special cultural orientation day and exposure to Thailand's Northern Capital (day trip) : 270 € for those who are not already members of SIGNIS. The members' registration fee is : 225 €.
But... by paying this time 270 € you become "associate institution" of SIGNIS for 2010! The normal fee for such a membership category is 100 €. The calculation is simple: 100 € membership + 225 € registration... makes a total of 325 € ! Take the opportunity to save 55 € ... and become a member for next year!
Registration fee for the Seminar (and Congress) does not include accomodation, travel expenses and evening meals (except Congress closing dinner). Upon reception of your form (see below), you will receive an email to enable you to book accomodation at hotels near the Convention centre at special rates, ranging from 20 to 45 $ per room per night (including breakfast).
Would you like to take part in the 8th TV/Producers' Seminar?
We know already that we will have a large participation! According to the information we have, participants will come from Burkina Faso (Pierre-Augustin Metuole Dabiré, Sibiri Nestor Samne, Rachel Zongo), from Mali (Timothée Diallo), from Pakistan (John Nadeem Shakir), from India (Dominic Emmanuel, Sanjay Kumar Bharati, Rappai Poothokaren), from France (Agnès Ravoyard, Isabelle Pighetti), from Hong Kong (Catherine Wong, Shirley Tsang), from Brasil (Claudio Galvão da Silva), from Micronesia (Carmen William Dasko), from Australia (Peter Thomas, Richard Leonard), from French Polynesia (Teheura and Léopold Ariipeu), from Ecuador (Marcelo Mejía Morales, Tapia Mario), from Senegal (Marie-Louise Diandy), from Macao (Eduardo Francisco Tavares), from the Philippines (Edwin Lopez), from Togo (Miwonov Roger Akue Kpakpo), from Trinidad & Tobago (Lisa Bhajan), from the Netherlands (Miranda Iping and Jan-Willem Bult, for KRO), from Romania (Anca Berlogea), from the US (Larry Rich, Mary and Frank Frost, Sherry Brownrigg), from Russia (Nick Goryachkin and Elena Ignatyeva), from Indonesia (Yoseph Iswarahadi), from Germany (Michael Hertl, Mark von Riedemann, Adonis Narcelles), from Argentina (Leandro Lanzotti), from Lebanon (Sami Bou Chalhoub, Raghida Skaff, Marie-Thérèse Kreidy), from Taïwan (Jerry Martinson), from Italy (Noemi Bergamin, Paolo Pellegrini), from Belize (Javier Molina), from Kenya (Amos Ochieng'), from Czech Republic (Msgr. Leos Ryska, Marcel Puvak), from Slovakia (Tomas Straka), from South Africa (Norman Servais), from Cameroon (Albin Zoalang Tsala), from Mauritius (Abel Sullivan)...
Would you like to join ?
To join... is very simple... Fill in the form below. Upon reception we will forward to you more information and give you access to a secured web site for registration.
(1) Would you like to have a look at the results of the previous seminars? Please click here to discover a short report on all SIGNIS TVdesk seminars since 2003.
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