SRN Executive Council Meeting
(via Zoom)
February 17, 2025
7am Los Angeles
Circulation list: Rosanne Welch (RW), Jan Cernik (JC), Isadora Garcia Avis (IGA), Lucian Georgescu (LG). Clarissa Miranda (CM), Romana Turina (RT), Juan Carlos Carrillo (JC).
ECR Hugo Armando Arcinega (HA)
- Apologies for any absences
Isadora, Romana
- Approval of Minutes of previous meeting.
Point 4 – JC will email adjustment to Secretary. With that donem JC approves and Hugo seconds.
- IG/JCC – Update on Membership email transfer and numbers of new members since SRN2024.
Tabled for March meeting
- Take group zoom photo
- JC: Newsletter Update –JC Thanked for all the time put on this project. ALSO, for collecting list of previous Keynote Speakers for placement on the website. JC reports that all info minus a few abstracts is in for placement on new section of website.
LG – can use the information gathered on previous conferences to add into edits for future Conversations.
- RT: Working Groups Update – Organizing Script Reading Working Group Zoom for Feb 28 to see how many SRN members are interested.
- GROUP decides to choose a month to invite Working Group Members to attend an EC meeting in the next couple of months. Maybe March or April. Also to invite Craig Batty to an EC meeting for update on SRN2025?
–Will he be free to visit? RW will email.
- JC –”Sustainable Screenwriting Working Group” within SRN
2 people answered with interest – JC will continue – not tied to current research.
LG – still has monies for another small conference
- IGA – Update on when to post about Annual Award Nominations (Teaching, Books and Articles)
- LG: SRN2024 Video production update.
LG – conversation with Steven Maras, keynote speaker at Copenhagen in 2010, available for uploading. Other interviews are nearly an hour long. Plans are to release Conversations with previous Chairs, EC members, then move on to full coverage of Vienna conference, then the Oxford online conference Conversation by summertime.
RW- Has idea about naming a Historian as new position in EC? – Group agrees it’s worth putting up for vote to add to Constitution during next AGM
- CM: Conference in Brazil in the city of Florianópolis, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Fall Semester 2026?
Meeting is set up with 3 screenwriting teachers at the uni – ideas: all students could join the conference at no cost; numbers who may attend/add it as a hybrid so those who can’t pay to attend can still attend. Will have meeting in March with uni. Cinema born 15 years ago. For hybrid they are used to it. All agree hybrid option helps academics whose unis don’t offer travel funding and exposure to new perspectives help us all.
- Formally accepted bids for sites for:
Oxford 2026 (in hand) / (AND Florianopolis in April – forthcoming)
Mexico City 2027
Milan 2028 (in hand along with email from Armando Fumagilli moving from 2027 to 2028)
Navarre 2029 (forthcoming)
- HA: Presentation of the report of monthly results of social media –
HA – Lots of good material to post.
Date of next meeting(s): March 17.
Future Meetings: Apr 21(Easter Monday), May 19, June 16, July 21, Aug. 18, Sept. 19 (in person at SRN2025).