In this video, JJ Murphy, Kathryn Millard and Alex Munt talk to Rosanne Welch about the SRN conferences they organized in Sydney (Australia) in 2012 and Madison, Wisconsin (USA) in 2013.
This is the living memory of the Screenwriting Research Network.
Monday 16 May 2022 10 pm GMT/UTC
Tuesday 17 May 2022 7.00 am AEST (via Teams)
Circulation list: Rosanne Welch (RW), Rose Ferrell (RF), Rafael Leal (RL), Jan Cernik (JC), Isadora Garcia Avis (IGA), Shaopeng Chen (SC), Margaret McVeigh (MM),
Meeting begun :02 after the hour
All present.
RF proposed/MM seconded. Accepted.
RF – Here are some notes on the SRN Conversations for discussion at our meeting tomorrow. They are made after considering ideas put forward by others, and rewatching the youtube clips “SRN Conversations #1 – Memories from SRN Conferences (2008 – 2011). In summary, after looking at the recording of the first Conversation I think it has a robust framework. We should continue with the same.
The theme of the Conversations as ‘Memories from SRN Conferences’ is a strong identifying factor. I think we should continue to honour that endeavour – make it historical, to build a picture of the developing SRN
Points which were repeated by different speakers:
Issues we still grapple with:
language – doing everything in English (its practical!) – Ronald Geerts conference was bilingual (Fr, Eng). Didn’t work for everyone!
DIVERSITY in all things – Encourage greater diversity of all sorts!! Esp’ly nations whose filmmaking tradition / history is non-European..
Things to follow up on: the ongoing development of the field;
its relationship to new technologies;
its breakthrough moments – important scholarly arguments, works, introduction of new streams of inquiry
To consider: – a slideshow of photos to follow on from the world map animation.
NB – we should publicise the animation (link in newsletter; post on facebook)
PROPOSE Next Conversation:
TO DISCUSS – 2,3 or 4 conferences per session? Ask coordinators whether they have synergy with other coordinators / speakers eg. to put Davinia NZ and Carmen Santiago together? Set questions / topics, issues to discuss.
Chair – Rosanne / Rose
Coordinator – Rose
Tech support – Rafael
2012 – (Sydney) Alex Munt; Kathryn Millard;
2013 – (Madison) Kellie Conway, J.J. Murphy
2014 – (Germany) Kerstin Stutterheim
2015 – (Santiago) Carmen Sofia Brenes
2015 – (London) Steven Price; Rosamund Davies; ??
2016 – (Leeds) Ian McDonald; ??
2017 – (Dunedin) Davinia Thornley; Amie Taua
2018 – (Milano) Armando Fumagalli, Paolo Brassa
2019 – (Porto) Maria-Guillhermina
2021 – ONLINE Paolo Russo
RW – I could see doing 2 organizers at a time – Sydney/Dunedin from one part of the world and Madison/Santiago from the Americas.
RF – Would like them to continue showing the way the previous conversations highlighted the friendships and memories noted.
MM – 3 is a good number to get the conversation going/4 is too much and 2 is too little.
Chronological is more important than geographical because we are all writing and teaching the writing of universal stories so why recognize borders.
RF – I prefer chronological but recognize scheduling might require other mixes. It would still highlight the friendships.
RF – Wondering if we could have links to the photographs from various conferences with the YouTube Conversations so people could see them when they are interested.
RL – I sent the link to the GoogleDrive but others need be editors to post photos.
Can we share such a link to all members to post photos during and after confernces…?
We can discuss this next meeting after some technical research.
ACTION ITEM: ADD to next month’s AGENDA
MM – Wonderful to have all this on the web as a history of the Network. Connecting them could be a full project for someone to take on in the future.
RW – What’s the process since I’m Secretary?
MM – Rose, Rosanne and Rafael are up for election this year. SC is an invited emerging scholar for one year.
RW – Is the process for Re-election the same as election in that you need a letter of nomination and a second – and then a statement.
MM – Yes. And it is a real election from the floor. We’ll run this in Vienna at the AGM.
As we will be in person this time voting will be open to those present.
RF – If you run uncontested you still need those letters.
MM – In person we vote on paper handed to the Secretary and a Scrutineer.
RW – We’ll need to choose the Scrutineer and have them in place since I’m the Secretary.
MM – Will the 3 not up for election be in Vienna?
SC – I won’t be able to attend due to Covid restrictions.
RF – We should send letters
RW – Put the call for nominations in the newsletter and on FB – deadline July 15.
Then we’d send out via email by top of August. Voting during Vienna conference.
MM – Requirements proposer/2nd-er and word count for statement. Members need to be in place over one year in the Network.
RW – I’ll put out the Call for Elections – email to Council to put in newsletter/on FB, post to Jiscmail.
RF – We can add a sentence about “if you’re new to the org and want to understand the process” they can contact Membership Rep.
ACTiON ITEM – Gathering data for Chair’s annual report next meeting.
RF – Should we describe each role? In video for YouTube or in writing in the Call for Nominations?
MM – Another point is that in the Chairman’s report I’d rather not be just the Chair since we are a collaborative industry – screenwriters and academics alike – so I would like you each to tell your own accomplishments in that report.
RW – Great idea!
MM – We can discuss practicalities of that next meeting.
MM – Been interested in this idea for a while – started this conversation with RL and Nadia in Milan. Part of my platform – and now it is going to happen. As part of ASPERA we will have Asia Pacific Story Patterns. Tue July 12 – 4:30-6pm Australian Eastern Standard Time — a good time for people in Asia Pacific to engage online. Panel of AP cinema experts including CAPA (International Assoc of Film School – CILECT), rep from NePac – (Promotion of AP), Anthony Mullens wrote book about patterns from AP films. In process of inviting filmmakers from AP to add to panel. My head of school and member of CAPA will moderate.
Looking to open a call for papers on AP story patterns. One panel won’t answer the question but will start the conversation. Panel will be open to members of SRN, CAPA, etc. Not all panelists will be academics. Part of our work is to educate practical filmmakers from areas where there are not schools of cinema. Will be live but might record (based on permissions).
We can do an alert in all our social media/newsletter.
MM – Preliminary program shows registration at 8:30 on first day.
JC – Should we meet on Wednesday the day before?
IG – Cocktail hour is 9pm – we could meet 5:30-6:30/17:30-18:30.
MM – We could meet close to the Town Hall so we could walk over afterwards.
Can I ask IG to organize with Stephanie of a place to meet?
IG – Will send out beginning of June. We are looking for next newsletter – can we ask Claus as the organizer of the next conference?
JC – Others could be members of awards committee first in June – then Claus in September to welcome members to the conference.
MM – Call for nominations next – then notice of Asia Pacific Story Patterns Panel, then interviews.
JC – Note that conference reg is open.
RF – We could add the cute gif of where all the conferences have been.
RF – Anything new with the FB page? Can we help in any way?
RW – Sept. 20-24, 2023 – Columbia, Missouri
Adjourned – On the hour 3:00pm PDT
June 20/21 next meeting
Monday 25 April 2022 10 pm GMT/UTC
Tuesday 26 April 2022 7.00 am AEST (via Teams)
Circulation list: Rosanne Welch (RW), Rose Ferrell (RF), Rafael Leal (RL), Jan Cernik (JC), Isadora Garcia Avis (IGA), Shaopeng Chen (SC), Margaret McVeigh (MM),
Meeting adjourned 2:33pm PDT
May 17th – next meeting
SRN AWARDS 2021 – 2022 – CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The SRN AWARDS will celebrate their 3rd edition at the 2022 Conference at Vienna this September 2022.
We invite all members and colleagues to submit Nominations for the best publications of 2021/2022 by the deadline of 31 May 2022 for articles published between 1 June 2021 & 31 May 2022.
Both nominations and self-nominations are welcome.
The Awards this year will be again in two categories:
Best Monograph – for single-authored or co-authored volumes (any format)
Best Journal Article/Book Chapter – Both articles and chapters normally range around 6-8,000 words but the format may vary.
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.
Submitted titles must have been published between 1 June 2021 & 31 May 2022.
All submissions will be evaluated independently by our Jury of distinguished academics: Professor Emeritus Tom Stempel, Associate Professor Eva Novrup Redvall and Professor Carmen Sofia Brenes.
Winners will be announced at the 2022 SRN Conference in Vienna.
Guidelines for the submission of nominations
All submissions in both categories should be made directly to all three members of the Jury (see contact details below) by 31 May 2022. However, early submissions are most welcome and encouraged.
MONOGRAPHS – Nominees and self-nominees should send hard copies of their monographs directly to each Juror via regular mail/courier. Publishers are usually happy to supply complimentary evaluation/inspection copies: only where this is really not possible (including, for instance, volumes due out very close to the deadline), authors can send a PDF copy of the approved preprint manuscript (in this case via email) as a backup option.
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS – Individual journal articles (i.e. not the whole journal) or chapters (i.e. not the whole book) should be sent as PDF (as per preprint approved draft) directly to the Jurors via email.
Contact details for all submissions:
Tom Stempel, 2711 Coolidge Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA. Email: kestrs@ca.rr.com
Eva Novrup Redvall Dept. of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Southern Campus, Karen Blixens Vej 8, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. Email: eva@hum.ku.dk
Carmen Sofia Brenes, School of Humanities and Communication, Universidad Finis Terrae, Av. Pedro de Valdivia 1509, Providencia, RM, Chile. Email: csbrenes@uft.cl
If you have any enquiries, please contact Margaret McVeigh.
Monday 21 February 2022 10 pm GMT/UTC
Tuesday 22 February 2022 7.04 am AEST (via Teams)
Circulation list: Rosanne Welch (RW), Rose Ferrell (RF), Rafael Leal (RL), Jan Cernik (JC), Isadora Garcia Avis (IGA), Shaopeng Chen (SC), Margaret McVeigh (MM),
IG – nominates acceptance
JC – seconded
Minutes approved
MM – JC sent CV for possible judge of SRN book/article award 2022. Dina Iordanova. Now she is one of the keynote speakers for the Vienna conference.
JC – I did not know that would happen when I sent in her CV. We had talked about choosing someone from a non-Western country and she is from Eastern Europe but teaches in Scotland.
IG – my PhD professor had worked with her and she was impressive. I second the nomination.
MM – Thank JC for that nomination. She is quite suitable. Let us all offer up names by next meeting and discuss them. Focus on people with closer focus on screenwriting studies (as creative practice) more than film studies. We have many esteemed elders who were instrumental in our SRN who drove the network and maybe we should approach some of them. The prize is meant for best practices in screenwriting as an art form.
RW – I’m all for asking those folks for their interest – some near retirement might not want more work or others might find this just the right kind of retired contribution to make.
JC – What are our conceptions of the requirements for judges?
IG – Last meeting notes mention an attempt to replace the female who is leaving with another female.
Action Item – Add choosing to next month’s agenda.
JC – We can put the new call in the next newsletter – it is coming out after one more interview is completed.
IG – Newsletter will go out first week of March so we can include this reminder for submissions for the prize. Deadlines are May 31 each year.
IG – I remember receiving a call for the submissions – did it include the awards?
MM – Let’s put out our reminder in the newsletter.
RL – One person on the Executive Council can receive the submissions…?
MM – So next month we will decide who to approach and do it one at a time.
IG – Suggestion: Let’s ask Carmen Sofia Brenes now.
RF – We had 3 judges – Eva is who we are replacing. Kristin is staying and Tom Stempel.
MM – I will also confirm the returning judges.
RF – Steven Maras has asked for suggestions for some new editors and reviewers for the JOS. We agreed to pool a number of names for him to peruse. We sent some and agreed to add more when they come to us. Ian MacDonald and Claus Tieber suggested some names as well. We could use a central point to gather those names – I can do that so if you have names send them on to me and I’ll send them on to Steven.
IG – Do they all have to be in Screenwriting Studies?
RW – Just checked Steven’s email and he wants: “As Co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting we have been seeking ways to make our editorial advisory board more diverse and inclusive. The pool of people we draw on is very similar so it makes sense to collaborate and continuing to build bridges into South America, Asia and Africa, especially.”
MM- Let’s move to the Action Plan.
RF – Now that we have the YouTube Channel I’m motivated to record another conversation with former conference organizers. It was motivated to help future organizers but also as an oral history of the founding of the SRN and the casual friendships that have come from joining. We’ve been following chronology using the first 4 conferences so now we’re ready to do the next 4: Sydney, Wisconsin, Chile, Potsdam. We need a coordinator to figure out times to suggest, then a technical back up (Rafael in the first one), someone to do the introduction – an anchor who then also formulates a set of questions to keep the conversation going and moderating between speakers. I coordinated the last one and will happily repeat that. I would like some feedback on the last one as we prepare for the next one.
RL – I’m happy to be tech on that again. I think one-to-one interviews or smaller round tables might be smoother. To record the memories of our organization we can do smaller ones every other month.
MM – Good idea. Putting a time limit on each speaker can be good. If you had fewer people we could go for shorter times as well. A tight set of questions can help.
RF – Speakers were primed with questions ahead of time.
We can do just two right now. Sydney and Wisconsin.
MM – I can moderate Wisconsin and whichever other one. I didn’t attend Sydney. I had not Heard of the network yet.
RF – Also I wonder if there’s a difference betwwen recording how to organize a conference and what the cultural aspects of the SRN is – the fact that we don’t charge a fee so we can be as welcoming as posible. So we could do 2 kinds of interviews – one with organizers and another on memories of specific conferences.
Action Item – RF will send out synopsis of ideas.
RF – Then by next meeting we will have something scheduled. And I don’t have to be the coordinator of all of these – I’m more than happy to open up the opportunity to whoever is interested.
MM – JC and IG will have the newsletter ready next week.
SC – I have been posting to social media and am working on being as regular as possible with them.
RF – I wanted to repost another message about diversity in newsletter and on FB if there’s space.
MM – I have been planning an event to bring together Asian-Pacific screenwriter academics. I have meetings next week with my Herman Van Eyken is Head of Griffith Film School – he is president of CILECT – The International Association of Film and TV School so we hope to be able to make these connections. Many emerging countries want to study screenwriting and we want to expand this to those academics and filmmakers. Our film school has a focus on Asia and one of our key mission statements is to connect with Asia. We have other colleagues who are specialists in Asia-Pacific film who will help me with this. Perhaps we can organize a master class online.
RW – When will your conference happen?
MM – ASPERA (Australian Screen Education production and research association) conference is in July (11-13th) and this might be connected to that so we can open a bit of it to SRN in some way.
Meeting Adjourned 12 past the hour.
SRN Executive Meeting
Monday 22 November October 2021 10 pm GMT/UTC
Tuesday 23 November 2021 7.00 am AEST (via Teams)
Circulation list: Rosanne Welch (RW), Rose Ferrell (RF), Rafael Leal (RL), Jan Cernik (JC), Isadora Garcia Avis (IGA), Shaopeng Chen (SC), Margaret McVeigh (MM),
RL, SC
RF – proposes accepting.
IG – Seconded.
CT gives information on planning stages. Funding in process. One has come through. Fee for conference will be similar to past (in vicinity 100 Euro). Special rates for ECRs. Keynote speakers invited. Discussion of narrative new perspectives, one on Cinema in Diaspora and practical keynote – masterclass at film academy by (female director nominated for Oscar 2 years ago).
https://www.film.auth.gr/en/eleftheria-thanouli/
https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/desai003
https://www.filmakademie.wien/de/author/goetz-spielmann/
https://www.prismafilm.at/en/film/revanche
CFP reminder will go out in early December on old website. Plus FB site. Awaiting new graphic logo.
Reception at City Hall on night before – Wed 21st. Outdoor event in the works.
3 day conference, a few rooms available, will affect how many can present. Round Tables in the works.
AGM on middle day – Friday – to collect more members will start with Round Table as happened online for Oxford conference to bring in Austrian screenwriters with members of Network.
Presentation for next conference will be near the end. Close with award ceremony.
EC organizes members of jury for awards. Which jury member will be in person in Vienna?
EC will make graphic design certificates for the book and article award winners.
Sponsored by Tom Stempel at first.
Last EC I was part of we decided to give away a lifetime achievement from time to time – to someone who had done a lot for screenwriting studies and to the SRN. We had intended to give it in Oxford. We should prepare a video of colleagues congratulating him.
Framing the AGM with all these events should bring in more attendees.
Planning room for work groups to meet in person.
Asks for suggestions of anything else needed for the program.
Print program or only online?
MM – I’ve attended conferences with apps that held programs and other info. Those who want can print their own copy. Might use a billboard display for everyone to check.
CT – Room events will be posted on the doors. Registration will have a full list. Internet access from the university.
MM – Final meeting of this EC before conference. Chance to let the chairperson explain what will be in the AGM meeting.
CT – Will find a room on Wednesday for that. Perhaps during lunch.
MM – So we need to find a new judge for the awards. Possible sponsorship for monetary award.
CT – Due to Covid we should set a date for deciding if this conference should go online. Much depends on if members can find funding from their universities.
RW – For travelers across the ocean we should settle the date by May/June. Revisit this question in April.
MM – In Otago they had to pay to rent the rooms at their uni – do you have to do that?
CT – One room only. But if we cancel we don’t have to pay.
JC – Are you considering limitations such as requiring vaccinations?
CT – You have to be currently. Some colleagues in the UK aren’t given funds to travel to the EU right now.
RF – Is there a minimum number you need to attend?
CT – We can have a small number but what happens to those who can’t come?
RW – How many attended the South American regional conference?
RF – 20 or so – wonderful for meeting and getting to know each other but not planned as the full, annual conference.
CT – When we have questions for EC to organize a conference do we email the whole EC or is there a contact person?
MM – I will do that but then CC all others if they need to know. Thanks to Claus and Stephanie for their report today. We are looking forward to meeting you both in person in Vienna in September.
MM – Congratulations to Jan and Isadora on a wonderful first newsletter.
JC – It will come out quarterly.
MM – Constitution doesn’t say the ECR has to do FB posts so we should look for a new plan.
RF – Perhaps ECR assembles material – sends to other member to do posting. Or ask newsletter person to do FB.
MM – Table this for next month agenda.
JC – We could have call with ECR to think about sharing communication duties.
MM – Excellent.
All good – just moved Aug. 22 to 29 for Spanish holidays.
MM – Going over Action Plan. What should we prioriticize. Covering topics in Action Plan – we can look into any website business next meeting.
–Approach Jill Nelmes or Jule Selbo?
RF – We should research all the top academics in the field now. We could all have a list at the next meeting. Might find someone who isn’t an English-first speaker.
MM – Action item – we will all come with a list of a few people to approach. Bring a short bio.
JC – Warren Buckland?
RW – He works with Paolo so he could be asked. But we are replacing a female academic so we should keep that in mind.
IG – I can look at non-English speakers and bring a list.
RF – Great way to keep it international.
MM – Need to check the publication dates required for entrants.
MM – Point #7 – how to attract international membership beyond current members.
RF – Ongoing – I’m about to put out a new post about asking colleagues to join the network. It’s always worth adding a sentence to communications with non-members to see if they know about the Network. I just met on the ECR Symposium a dual-language screenwriter and asked him about other colleagues.
MM – Points 10 and 11 have to do with posting short videos and continuing the online oral history. Ongoing. #12 is to support working groups. Has that become so normalized that we can’t add much to that?
RF – Our role is to encourage them but not necessarily to motivate them. They may be stumbling a bit but they have to live in their own worlds and manage themselves. The script reading from the online conference worked well as a way to show how the practice-based working group works. Such groups have their own lives but not sure the EC has a place in pushing them on.
MM – I wonder how many new members we have who might not know about the working groups – we could post about them in the newsletter with contacts.
IG – If we coordinate the marketing strategy and do something like ‘The Month of the Working Group” – we can discuss that at the next meeting to establish.
RF – We should check in with the coordinators to see if they are still in existence and want the support.
IG – We can do that closer to the time we plan the next newsletter.
RF – A new member said she joined in order to Access our database. She wasn’t yet a student and needed articles for study. As I understand it we only have the bibliography list – we need to find who set that up to see what state it is in. If it’s a going concern we can post more about it. Meant to offer everyone a growing list of new materials worth using.
MM – There are certain key pieces that have advanced our discipline so it’s worth collecting them for new members to learn.
RF – We need to add coordinating the next oral history interview to get that done this year.
– Screen Industries Growth Network email plus other business
MM – Meeting adjourned 2:18pm PST.
SRN EC Meeting – October Minutes
Monday 18 October 2021 10 pm GMT/UTC
Tuesday 19 October 2021 7.00 am AEST (via Teams)
Circulation list: Rosanne Welch (RW), Rose Ferrell (RF), Rafael Leal (RL), Jan Cernik (JC), Isadora Garcia Avis (IGA), Shaopeng Chen (SC), Margaret McVeigh (MM),
Isadora Garcia Avis (IGA
RF – Proposes approval.
RW – Seconds
MM – General response? And request to send a thank you to Paolo Russo.
RW – Very much appreciated the way online let many more members take part.
RF – Agree – need to thank Paolo for meeting the challenge. Also, we should find a way to incorporate some of the advantages of these online events.
MM – Claus Tieber would like to meet with us next month to address upcoming conference plans. As to online being part of in person events – we did try this for ASPERA in Australia but they wanted in person people to confirm to pay for keynote speakers and their lodging/travel.
RF – upcoming conference in Australia is offering one day online and 2 days in person. Also, online doesn’t have to be free. It can attract more people to take part.
MM – Recent online event I attended was 350 Euros in person / 150 Euros online. In regards to thanking Paolo shall I write thank you letter from me as Executive or mention in the newsletter?
RW – Yes in the newsletter as some newer members might not know his complete involvement.
RF – And he had planned 2 conferences actually, with the first being cancelled due to the pandemic.
MM – Anne has been away on school holidays but sent message – things moving along well. RF will be morning co-chair host/Rosamund co-chair host afternoon. Anne will send more info and would like it posted to FB as well.
RF – Will be hosted on the 2021 conference site so it should go as smoothly as the SRN conference.
JC- It’s already up on the conference site.
MM – Claus will speak with us next November. Call for Papers went out yesterday – time to plan your abstract/paper. We expect to all be present in person.
MM – Time to plan for new roles in the new year and advise new members about roles and responsibilities.
RF – We could have each older member explain their role…
MM – Elections are 2 year periods. I’m starting again a second term. We agreed that I would be Chair this year through the Vienna conference – then Rosanne will take the 2nd year leading up to her conference in the U.S. in 2023. As an Australian member I want to build on our membership from this part of the world. Happy to have Shaopeng here to represent that part of the world and thanks to RF for all of her work as Membership member to build that. I plan to set up a small regional conference during ASPERA this year to engage the Asian world.
RW – As Secretary I type the Minutes and sometimes ask for clarification for some of what has been said.
RF – As Membership and Inclusion Officer I help people who want to join who find us online and click the link that leads to JISCMAIL, hosted by Leeds for a few more years thanks to RL’s work on all things tech. Then I’m listed as an administrator of JISCMAIL so I can accept the membership and then send a personal letter of welcome to new members that explains the SRN. Then I send the form that asks for further data to get more data on who are our members. I’m the first person in contact with them. I read all the forms and learn who the person is so I can understand what level they are at their university and what interests them in the SRN. I want to be able to use the forms to create stronger connections between members. I like to be in contact with academics around the world to encourage us to join – just like when MM and RL and I met in Chile and here we are involved deeply with the organization.
RW – It was RF who made sure that our JOS Special Issue on Women in Screenwriting was as international as possible so that there are now 4 people on this EC that had articles in that issue.
MM – And you were instrumental to the online interview series with past conference organizers to begin our oral history of the SRN.
RF – Which reminds me to tell SP and JC that the EC is a chance to bring any of your own new ideas to the table.
RL – Extending SRN into underrepresented areas such as Latin America where the challenge is to make people go to in person conferences which can be very expensive considering universities don’t cover such expenses. I have to do it on my own funds, which I have because I am also a screenwriter. So we should look to ways to help there. Then we need better membership in Asia and Africa. We are woefully underrepresented there.
Also I think we should continue the oral histories because history matters so that our information won’t disappear into a data hole. We need to interview them while the have photos and fresh memories. Those are my 2 most important goals. We talked last term about revamping the website but the more I use it, the more I think it’s fine. It suits us now.
RW – I agree. Why revamp what looks fine? Better to build up the YouTube Channel and other social media areas (TikTok) to keep us connected to newer and younger members.
RF – Can we share the Google password for us all to access?
RL – The security alerts make that difficult because it requests the SCMS confirmation which makes it difficult.
JC – Does the Google Drive allow us to share files anyway?
RL – You don’t have to log in to upload to the GoogleDrive.
MM – And you upload the Minutes after each meeting…
RL – Yes.
MM- From last meeting Jan and Isadora will do the newsletter together. I forwarded them the templates which came to me form Carmen, using Pages. Then SC as ECR will look after the social media. Also, you both have new ideas to share – but first I wanted to put on the table that we have a bunch of communications channels but they don’t always talk to each other. A marketing master I know offered some advice on what she thought – she saw a newsletter as a permanent consolidation of information and social media as updates. Would you both like to address that going forward?
JC – We discussed newsletter with Isadora and proposal to update it. We don’t use Pages and aren’t graphic designers so we want to create a new version. We are thinking of using MailChimp.
RW – Yes I use that in my MFA.
RL – Yes it is good. But I also suggest Canva. I use it for my presentations.
JC – We will try Canva. I prepared a draft newsletter for this meeting. I will share now. We want to include more images/less text and have it branded so it matches our social media as well. This edition is about the past conference – highlights, winners of SRN awards, news from the Council, etc. Then there can be permanent sections on Call for Papers and such. We wanted to keep those older sections and maybe a new permanent section – a short interview or a Q&A we found from older newsletters.
ALL MEMBERS – Much approval of new design/new ideas.
JC – As non-native speakers we’d need proofreaders so if MM, RF or RW will help that will be great.
RW – That’s another reason that more photos/less text is a great idea.
RF – More than happy to proofread.
MM- It should appear 4 times a year. All it needs is Issue # to separate them out. One issue with images – in Australia we are very big on trademarks – we’d need official permission for use of images in emails.
JC – So everyone will receive this in an email – we can make it a pdf for posting. More people will click on links in their inbox.
RL – Pdf can also have clickable links but it’s friendlier in email. To post to the website HTML is easier and more friendly.
MM – So it will be permanently on the site for new members to see.
JC/RL – Yes it can be done.
RF – Question – Where will the original document live? I’m wondering about the long term if Leeds stops being our host?
RL – Then we will move the entire website to another server and copy all the media that is stored. But it would also be wise to save sensitive stuff in the GoogleDrive. I’ll investigate that.
MM – All approve new newsletter set up.
JC- As to sharing info for the newsletter I can share it and you all can propose what should be in the newsletter. We can have it ready in beginning November.
SC – First, apologies for missing the last meeting due to technical difficulties. I worked with RF during my article in the JOS and read the one written by MM and it was indeed wonderful. So it’s a great honor to serve as a member of the EC.
As to social media Anne sent an email handover guide on what to do about ECR – very comprehensive, detailed document. I read it all. The biggest work of posting on FB and Twitter I have the question about the fact that those are banned in China. I can access them but software can be unstable.
Second question, same as Jan, I’m not a native speaker of English so if I need some copyediting.
MM – I want you to be comfortable in this role.
SC – Yes, I believe it is possible.
RF – We don’t use Twitter very much at all. FB is more important.
RL – I just posted to Twitter because when I post Minutes it automatically posts to Twitter so it’s not dormant.
I plan to send out a call for new Agenda items the Monday the week before our Monday/Tuesday meetings and would hope for added items by Friday so I can send out the full Agenda.
MM – We are asked to have 9 meetings across the year – we need to think about the Christmas and summer holidays – and have the last meeting pre-conference (which will be in Vienna). I will send out a list of proposed dates for the year before our next meeting.
Date of next meeting: TBD
November 22, 2021
14th Screenwriting Research Network International Conference:
Globalizing Screenwriting
22nd-24th September 2022
Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
UZA II-Rotunde, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien
Film Academy Vienna,
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien
Deadline for abstracts: 15th December 2021
Shortlisting/notification of acceptance by: End of January 2022
Early-bird registration: From early March until end of May 2022
Regular registration by: Mid-July 2022
Late registration by: End of August 2022
Submissions via email and contact: stephanie.schwarz@univie.ac.at
The SRN is comprised of scholars, writers, and practice-based researchers. Started in 2006, the network has achieved a substantial critical mass over the years – currently counting 700 members from 50+ countries.
The aim of the annual International Conference is to continue, and expand, discussions around the screenplay and to strengthen a rapidly emerging, and global, research network. So far, they have taken place in Leeds (2008), Helsinki (2009), Copenhagen (2010), Brussels (2011), Sydney (2012), Madison-Wisconsin (2013), Potsdam-Babelsberg (2014), London (2015), Leeds (2016), Dunedin (2017), Milan (2018) and Porto (2019) and due to pandemic online, organized by Oxford Brookes in 2021.
Proposals/Abstracts can be sent as either a Word or PDF document: please indicate “yourname_PROPOSALTYPE” (i.e. paper, panel, or videoessay; see below) clearly in the file title and in the subject heading of your submission.
After the cancelling of the 2020 conference and the online seminar series we are planning a face-to face conference, the first since Porto 2019.
All presentations, regardless of format, must therefore be delivered in person (i.e. no pre-recorded presentations), in English, and be underpinned by original research work being conducted by the presenter (i.e. no recycling/repetitions from previous SRN or other conferences). Multiple presenters (max. 2) for co-written papers are allowed.
We accept proposals for presentations in the following formats:
Proposals for traditional 20-minute papers, followed by Q&A. They should include:
individual papers + Q&A (as per guidelines above) on a shared topic. Proposals for pre-constituted panels can be submitted by any of the presenters or the Chair of the
panel and should include:
Abstracts should follow the guidelines for individual papers as above and include short bios and contact details of both the speakers and the panel Chair. Wherever possible, the Chair should NOT be one of the presenters. If a proposal for a pre-constituted panel does not include a Chair, the Conference Committee will appoint one. All proposals should indicate “Panel Proposal SRN 2022 in the file title and in the subject heading of the submission email.
Proposals are invited to present an audiovisual essay of 15 minutes maximum, in which the presenter(s) express a position on one of the above topics. It should NOT be a recording of a traditional paper presentation nor an experimental film; rather, it is an audiovisual discourse on a theoretical position. Essays can be submitted both individually or in panels of 3 videos grouped thematically (see guidelines above).
Note: the presence of the presenter at the conference is required.
We warmly recommend that the abstracts be as well-drafted as possible with a well-
defined research question, a clear focus, and a short summary of the intended
content of the presentation at the time of submission.
We aim to notify acceptance/rejection of proposals by the end of January 2022.
The Website for the Vienna conference will include a wealth of useful information (e.g., registration, travel arrangements, accommodation options, Covid rules), as well as all the updates and the program leading up to the Conference.
Registration will have the usual phased deadlines (early-bird, regular, late-premium, student concession); the conference fee is expected to be in the region of 100 Euro.
Please address any query regarding abstracts, registration, program, etc. to claus.tieber@univie.ac.at or stephanie.schwarz@univie.ac.at
Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna
UZA II-Rotunde, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien
Film Academy Vienna
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien
Monday 6.9.2021 at 10 pm GMT/UTC (via Zoom)
Circulation list: Carmen Sofia Brenes (CSB), Rose Ferrell (RF), Ann Igelström (AI), Rafael Leal (RL), Margaret McVeigh (MM), Paolo Russo (PR), Rosanne Welch (RW)
Minutes
RL
All pending Action Points have been either discharged or itemized below in the agenda.
Approved by All. Sent to RL for website posting by PR.
PR – Available on SRN2021 website for all members to read/approve during AGM. Grown more detailed each year. Report complete – Action Plan can be addended over next 2 weeks. Usually full report read at AGM, with it online we can summarize main points.
RW – Love the pie chart of membership by countries so please include that in short summary.
PR – Noted.
PR – Time to prioritize the Action Plan during first meeting of new EC after AGM/conference. Suggestions:
2.b. Generate/share guidelines for running conference.
6.a. Replace Janet as judge next year, then Tom Stempel year after, then Eva year after that.
7 i. ii. Iii. – Website updates with banner, new forms, DEI statement
RF – Would like a mail out to all members requesting new form for new data. Need access to GoogleDrive from RL to create form. Will also clear out lists based on responses by certain time.
PR – Almost 700 members to date. Worth cleaning the list for clarity.
RF – Would like to blend JISCmail and our list together for clarity. New points to discuss at ongoing EC in the new year.a. record round table with earlier conference organizers
PR – Intends to do some one off Zoom talks – one could be another of these oral histories
14 – Yearbook of international organizations – done 4 years ago and contacted us again to check our info for updated edition
CSB – Find a way to offer an email for later connection since EC Chair changes every 2 years
PR – Conference going well. Factoring in live panel attendance (50-60) and online views (1,700 or so). Only issues were last minute presenters withdrawing, causing schedule updates. When we went online we had 118 papers for in person conference, retained 60% of them in recorded/online presence. Feedback after first Keynote overwhelmingly positive. This week Prof. Murray Smith.
Claus Tieber will do this at second AGM. Video will also be posted. Dates now change – set on Sept. 22, 23, 24, 2022. U of Vienna has buildings scattered across city. Venue will be at building in northwestern section of time. 10 minute underground ride to city center.
PR – 3 nominations for ECR. One for EC. Isadora Garcia-Avis nominated from ECR to EC by PR and RW. New EC is now RW, RF, RL, MM, IG. Need to fill proper roles. I suggest that CSB role has less involvement – should blend with other roles as interim until next election.
Two that can subsume Treasure/Resources Officer – can go along with Newsletter Editor OR Membership Coordinator.
CSB – OR leave Treasurer vacant for a while since we don’t take in funds.
PR – Need to choose new Chair as I am stepping down. Others returning need to decide if they will change or stay the same.
RW – We could use a Happy Hour.
PR – No we’re attending separate Sessions
MM – We could keep this time as it works for all of us here now and the new member is from Spain.
PR – Rose will you continue as Membership officer?
RF – Yes.
PR – MM how about you for Newsletter?
MM – I’m hosting a conference here next year so interested in being the Chair for one year and splitting it with someone else next year.
RW – I’d be up for splitting it in the 2nd year as I prepare the SRN 2023. So this year you’ll be Chair and I’ll stay on as Secretary. Next year’ I’ll serve as Chair and you’ll step in as Secretary.
MM – I decided on this conference a week ago so can we discuss it? It is in June each year. We’d like to include SRN members. We’d like to invite CSB to visit meetings to explain her Chilean regional conference.
CSB – Originally, the Chilean conference was to expand members into Latin America and for those who could not go to London that year.
MM – Appreciated that you had translators and that will be useful for Asian presenters.
PR – The fruits of the Chilean conference can be seen in that Brazil has the most presenters attending. And RL came to us from attending that one.
PR – Time to thank Anne Inglestrom for her service as the ECR.
AI exits meeting.
PR – We have 2 ECR nominations. Jan Chernick/ Czech Republic and Shaopeng from China.
RW – Tuesday Oct. 21st for first. Will be on Microsoft Teams via MM.
CSB – WE all thank PR for his excellent job as a Chair in the midst of all the chaos that was created by the pandemic. Then his exceptional work creating the online version of SRN2020/2021 which will lead to other ways to use the online technology to keep SRN members connected between conferences.
RW/RF – Likewise many thanks to CSB for all her work for the EC and the SRN over the years. She is the reason so many of us are involved in the EC and we are so happy for the opportunities she made possible.
PR – Online offers us a chance to stay in touch between conferences.
MM – Might need a 3 year business plan for use of technology/social media.
Date of next meeting: TBD (see item 7)
The 2020-2021 term is ending and the Annual General Meeting will take place to elect the new Executive Council and to approve the Activities Report for the last year and the Action Plan for the next.
Please find here the AGM agenda.