MINIPUT 2017

PROGRAMME

10:00

Presentation of the event

10:15

Death in the Terminal (factual, Israel, 52’, yes docu)

Presented by Núria Araüna and Laia Quilez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

On 18 October 2015, a terrorist started shooting in the bus terminal of the Israeli city of Be’er Sheva, killing an Israeli soldier. This minute-by-minute reconstruction centres on the 18 minutes following the attack. The declarations of witnesses and the material produced by different cameras (video-surveillance, cell phones) are used to reconstruct the events. Some images are detailed and fluid, others grainy or very jerky. The programme also raises questions such as what viewpoint should be used to draw conclusions from such an extreme situation? What actions should be taken? An exciting reconstruction using the “Rashomon effect”: lots of viewpoints and just one event.

11:30

Petra Dates the World (reality documentary series, Denmark, 29’, DR3)

Presented by Enric Calpena (URL-Blanquerna)

Debate with Harley Hersom, editorial director of the programme

An unconventional TV programme in which the host, Petra Nagel, reveals her personal life and emotions to the viewers, as the aim is to go on dates with men from all over the world. In each episode, Petra makes new dates to try and achieve her end: to find a boyfriend and true love. By means of dates with men from different cultures, the programme shows different cultural conceptions of love, sex, and the way we socialise.

12:25

The Quiz Show (talk show, Denmark, 31’, DR)

Presentation: Francesc Escribano (director of Minoria Absoluta)

This satirical talk show is presented as a quiz show with two contestants. Once a week, the presenter, comedian and journalist Signe Molde, takes a satirical look at current affairs and politics. In turn sweet, dead-pan and harsh, none of the high-profile politicians or ministers invited get let off the hook. Named The Danish Daily Show, it has become one of DR2’s most successful programmes.

 13:15

MyEscape (documentary, Germany, 90’, WDR)

Presentation: Maria Soliña Barreiro (Tecnocampus Mataró) + Pablo Peralta, Plan “Barcelona ciutat refugi”

This documentary looks at the journey that refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea had to undertake when the situation in their countries became unsustainable. Hundreds of thousands of people are leaving their countries, families and their own lives to gain a little security, in an attempt not to die. In many cases, the mobile phone became a tool to organise and record the fateful journey. This documentary is made using the shocking images filmed by the people featured.

13:55

NSU German History X (fiction, Germany, 103’, SWE, WDR, BR, ARD, MDR)

Presentation: Àngel Colom (Veranda)

After 1989, a far-right terrorist group, the National Socialist Underground, started to operate in Germany, killing immigrants in cold blood (the Bosphorus serial murders). The police focused on internal ethnic conflicts rather than considering it a right-wing conspiracy. The three-part series explains the killings from three viewpoints: that of the perpetrators, the victims and the investigators. Each part is written and directed by a different team.

15:45

Sorry about that (entertainment show, Belgium, 63’, één/VRT)

Presentation: Miquel Garcia (TV3)

Debate with Wim Janssen (head of contents at één/VRT)

You control your life, or at least you think you do… But what if that’s not the case? What if a team of television professionals is controlling it without you realising? What if everything that happens in your life is part of a game you know nothing about? The main character is followed by hidden cameras for a month, and all of his friends and family are in on the conspiracy. At the end of the month, the candidate is tricked into taking part in a game show that turns out to be about his own life.

17:05

Special session: Crossmedia

Presented by Sergi Vicente (director of betevé)

Debate with Hannamari Luukkanen, responsible for the One Million Birdhouses project

BBC The Social (Social media platforms, United Kingdom, BBC)

This digital content stream in the social media is created by and for 18-34 year-olds in Scotland. Its contents include comedy, games, music and lifestyles. The BBC created and curated this space to address young audiences and their different communities. At the heart of The Social are young creative people who work with a team of producers and researchers to enhance the contents. An important factor in the platform’s success is its permanent interaction with users. It currently reaches four million users a week through Facebook, 70% of whom are under 35.

One Million Birdhouses (cross platform campaign, Finland, 8’, YLE)

This project has a twofold aim: to raise people’s awareness of the massive decrease in birds all over the planet and to prompt people to action by building nesting boxes. The objective that two YLE journalists set themselves was to reach one million boxes. A website was set up (yle.fi/miljoonaponttoa) and 900,000 nesting boxes were registered, made by the people of a country with a population of 5.5 million inhabitants.

17:35

Special session: Reconstructing an Autonomic TV Channel in the 21st Century

Guests: Empar Marco (director of À Punt, Valencia’s new radio and television corporation), César Martí (head of programming at À Punt)

Presented by Montserrat Besses (TV3, journalist)

This session looks at the case of Valencia’s autonomic TV channel that closed as Canal 9 in 2013, covered at the time by MINIPUT. Now, after an impasse, it has reappeared with a new name and, most importantly, a new team. What are the priorities of an autonomic TV station today, when the Internet, globalised telecommunications and the rise of reactionary nation states are some of the actors with which it has to deal? What are its criteria for programming and its scope as public television?

18:00

Special session: Docudramas: Reinventing the Research Documentary

Presented by Mercè Oliva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Guests: Elías León Siminiani (El caso asunta, Antena3), Ramón Campos (Bambú)

This session looks at the docudrama as a genre that has been recovered and reinvented with productions such as Muerte en León (Movistar+) and El caso Asunta (Atresmedia) that go beyond news information and reporting, providing all the audiovisual resources needed to produce the fullest possible exercise in investigative journalism.

19:00

Chuck Norris vs. Communism (documentary, United States, 56’, PBS)

Presented by Raúl Minchinela, cultural analyst

In Communist Rumania, thousands of Western films on pirated VHS cassettes were smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, opening a window to the “free world” by means of Hollywood action films. Under the mandate of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Rumania was culturally isolated and ideologically censored. Images of life beyond its borders were cut, and television was reduced to propaganda reels. But in the mid-eighties, thousands of films were leaked in by an agent called Zamfir and dubbed by Irina Nistor, turning people’s homes into collective cinemas for clandestine meetings of family, friends, and Chuck Norris.

 

INTERACTIVE SESSION. Original version with Spanish subtitles

20:05 Late Shift Ctrl Movie (interactive thriller, Switzerland, SRG-SSR)

Presentation with Kurban Kassam (producer)

The main character in this film, made in London, is a student called Matt who has to prove his innocence after finding himself forced to take part in a bold heist at a famous auction house. Using advanced interactive technology, the public helps Matt to take dozens of real-time decisions in a violent, frenetic race around the capital that ends in one of seven possible ways. Developed by CtrolMovie and using the technology of the same name, Late Shift is a new cinematographic experience with one foot in the world of the cinema and one in the world of video games. Viewers can only experience the thriller using the iOS app or at a collective screening like the one at MINIPUT.