Month: October 2025

Winner of the 2025 SRN Screenwriting Teaching Innovation Award

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Every year, the Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) Teaching Innovation Award recognizes the achievements of an outstanding faculty scholar whose work demonstrates original approaches to supporting the teaching and learning development of screenwriters and scholars of screenwriting. The cerimony is celebrated during the annual conference.

This year´s Teaching Innovation Award Cerimony took place in the SRN Conference, in September, in Adelaide (Australia). The winner is Professor Lucian Georgescu for his pedagogy, curriculum reform, and industry integration at UNATC in Romania, that  are considered both innovative and visionary.

Read the words of the jury regarding the winner:

-He has clearly made a significant impact on his screenwriting students. 

-We are particularly impressed with the exportability of his approach to teaching and learning. Grounded in psychology and practice, Lucian has implemented new teaching methods to equip emerging writers to develop their work within a community of filmmakers — rather than in isolation — enabling them to thrive amid rapidly evolving media and production realities. 

-Lucian’s thirty-year teaching career with visible and impressive results represents the kind of pedagogical leadership the SRN Teaching Innovation Award seeks to honor.

Learn more about the winner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucian-georgescu-a8596510/

Read more about the awards

The committee is particularly interested in reviewing materials from applicants who look critically at their research agenda and teaching practice and consider how in addition to being innovative in their classrooms they are intentionally integrating their screenwriting research into their pedagogy.

Additionally, the committee would like to encourage applicants to:

  • Demonstrate the significance and value of their
  • Address how their research and teaching practice is new to the
  • Consider the exportability of their teaching innovation (how the practice can be adapted by other educators).
  • Demonstrate an overall awareness of their research and teaching innovations and what they are trying to achieve. In other words, clearly articulate pedagogical objectives and the broader significance of their

Members of SRN may self-nominate for the Screenwriting Teaching Innovation Award, or may nominate a colleague.

The Teaching Innovation Award Jury is composed by three eminent academics:

Armando Fumagalli – [email protected]
Dee Hughes – [email protected]
Anna Weinstein – [email protected]

Winners of the SRN Book/Publication Awards 2025

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The SRN AWARDS cerimony was celebrated in the 6th edition at the 2025 Conference in Adelaide, Australia, September 2025.

The Awards this year was again in two categories:

Best Monograph – for single-authored or co-authored volumes (any format) category, the winner was Eva Redvall  for her book entitled “Writing and Producing for Children and Young Audiences: Cases from Danish Film and Television”

Check the words of the jury regarding this winner:

“This book stands out as a unique and timely contribution, offering the first comprehensive, empirically grounded study of Danish media for audiences from toddlers to teenagers. Redvall effectively uses her “Screen Idea System” framework to analyze this often-overlooked sector, brilliantly illuminating how screenwriters, producers, and commissioners engage audiences and reshape script creation, including co-creative practices with children. This work provides valuable global lessons, bridging theoretical frameworks with practical industry knowledge that resonates far beyond a single nation”.

Where to read it: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-67073-2

Best Journal Article/Book Chapter – For articles and chapters normally category, the winners were Craig Batty & Allyson Holbrook for the work entitled “Screenwriting as research: How do doctoral candidates articulate the screenplay as a contribution to knowledge?”

Check the words of the jury regarding this winner:

“This book stands out as a unique and timely contribution, offering the first comprehensive, empirically grounded study of Danish media for audiences from toddlers to teenagers. Redvall effectively uses her “Screen Idea System” framework to analyze this often-overlooked sector, brilliantly illuminating how screenwriters, producers, and commissioners engage audiences and reshape script creation, including co-creative practices with children. This work provides valuable global lessons, bridging theoretical frameworks with practical industry knowledge that resonates far beyond a single nation.”

Where to read it: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790726.2025.2490239?src=exp-la

While no ratings of journals/publishers will be a factor in the evaluation of submissions, all publications should be scholarly, fully peer-reviewed work underpinned by substantial research specifically in the area of Screenwriting Studies.

Learn more about the criteria of the awards

All submissions in both categories should be made directly to all the members of the Jury.

All submissions will be evaluated independently by our Jury of distinguished academics:

Professor Carmen Sofia Brenes [email protected]

Leslie Kreiner Wilson [email protected]

Garrabost Jayalakshmi [email protected]

If you have any enquiries, please contact Rosanne Welch [email protected]