[Commlist] Call for Contributions: Outside the System - Southern & Eastern Documentary Production

Call for Contributions:

Outside the System
Southern & Eastern Documentary Production

Edited by: Max Schleser, Swinburne University of Technology

This edited collection captures documentary productions in the proximity 
of the Eastern and Southern Hemisphere. Outside the System explores 
documentary making in various facets and forms at the tangents of 
institutions and screen industry with a focus on social and creative 
innovation in documentary storytelling and beyond.

While documentary scholarship is a burgeoning field of research, very 
few books focus on the contributions of documentary theory and practice 
to art, culture and the screen industry in the Southern and/or Eastern 
Hemisphere. Documentary in the screen industry takes the US and Europe 
as a point of reference when considering film festival premieres, 
broadcast contracts or film markets. While the screen industry and 
funding opportunities in Australasia, Asia-Pacific and Latin America are 
limited, documentary production is growing exponentially and making 
contributions to art and culture.

Using the regional specificity as a starting point for this edited 
collection, documentary makers, creatives and scholars explore the 
documentary ecology outside the mainstream. With a focus on 
non-traditional practices, emerging media and community engaged 
documentary approaches, Outside the System opens up the ongoing 
conversation about the definition of documentary.

The edited collection will feature three sections (including 12 
chapters, six case studies and reports):

- Documentary systems of production, dissemination and exhibition 
(inside and) outside of the screen industry: Creative practice research 
at universities, independent producers and organisations, institutions 
in the GLAM and non-profit sector.

- Social Innovation: The voice of the marginalised communities in 
documentary.

- Creative Innovation: Transformation in documentary storytelling 
through AI, vertical video, micro and mobile cameras, smartphone 
filmmaking and XR.

The edited collection will include chapters, reports and case-studies. 
Some of the reports will allow filmmakers and screen producers, as 
Creative Arts researchers, to critically reflect on their work, and some 
case-studies will outline NTROs (Non-Traditional Research Outputs) 
produced at various universities in the Southern and/or Eastern Hemisphere.

The Swinburne University of Technology Documentary Research Group is 
located in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to contributors from 
Swinburne University, we seek contributions from scholars, creative arts 
researchers, filmmakers and screen producers in the Global South and 
Australasia.

Abstract submission (350 words excluding bibliography): 15th July 2024
Notification of acceptance: 16th September 2024
Chapters (5000 word incl. bibliography) or case study/report/NTRO (2000 
words incl. bibliography): 1st March 2025
Peer-review: 1st June 2025
Feedback and submission of final chapters: 1st September 2025

This proposal is endorsed by Intellect Books 
(https://www.intellectbooks.com/).

Submission via Email: (MSchleser /at/ swin.edu.au)

Swinburne University of Technology Documentary Research Group

Augustus Raymond Segar
Dr. Cesar Albarran-Torres
Dean Keep
Denby Weller
Dr. Elizabeth Burke
Dr. Felix Gyebi
Dr. Jeffrey Bird
Dr. Jillian Holt
Professor Jock Given
Professor Lorenzo Veracini
Associate Professor Max Schleser
Professor Susan Kerrigan
Adjunct Professor Therese Davis
Wilson Suai Moses
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