INPUT was founded on the principle that every culture is valuable and deserves respect and recognition. It stimulates an increased awareness of cultural, societal, and national sensibilities as it relates to public television programming from around the world.

Forest Creatures Foundation sponsored INPUT 2018 in Brooklyn New York as its keystone event. This brought the first public recognition of the Foundation and its vision for supporting alternate media and a culture of peace internationally.

INPUT – the International Public Television Conference – also known as the International Public Television Screening Conference was founded on the principle that every culture is valuable and deserves respect and recognition. Its primary event is an annual global conference for public broadcasting professionals centered on screening rooms simultaneously presenting the best and most innovative public television programming from around the world. In any given year up to one-hundred countries participate in INPUT.