[Commlist] Call for proposals for Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy & Screenwriting Research Network Joint Conference/Festival

      Call for Proposals: Joint SRN Conference and Sightlines Festival
      2025 - HYPHEN

The University of South Australia’s Creative People, Products and Places 
Research Centre (CP3) in conjunction with the Australian Screen 
Production, Education and Research Association (ASPERA) is pleased to 
announce a combined Screenwriting Research Network 
<https://screenwritingresearch.com/> conference, and Sightlines: 
Filmmaking in the Academy 
<https://www.aspera.org.au/sightlines-conference> festival, to be held 
17-20 September 2025 in Adelaide, South Australia.

Since 2006 the Screenwriting Research Network has hosted an annual 
conference to explore innovative approaches and exciting research into 
the history, theory, practice and teaching of screenwriting. This 
conference has travelled the world. Meanwhile, since 2014, Sightlines: 
Filmmaking in the Academy, a symposium/festival, has provided a forum to 
showcase and discuss screen-based ‘non-traditional’ research outputs. In 
2024 we bring these two important communities and events together to 
explore crossovers and connections between theory, practice and education.

The theme for the conference-festival is Hyphen. The between. The 
connected. The hybrid. What does the hyphen mean to you? What does it 
mean for practice? How does it appear in industry? What are the 
theoretical implications? From the practitioner-academic to the 
writer-director, to the creative-critical, to the teaching-research 
nexus, to documentary-drama, to the anti-hero, to the 
non-representational, we are interested in creative, critical and hybrid 
responses to the theme hyphen.

In this conference-festival we are keen to embrace a range of 
submissions that reflect the outputs of scholars, reflective 
practitioners, and creative-practice researchers interested in 
screenwriting and screen production research and showcase the full range 
of screenwriting and screen production that occurs within and between 
the higher education sector and industry, and across a breadth of 
platforms and methodologies.

We welcome submissions for in-person presentations in the following formats:

  *

    20-minute papers:

Presentations can include exhibition of screen production research 
in-progress or discussion of screenplay works.

  *

    Pre-constituted panels:

Panels can include exhibition of screen production research in-progress 
or discussion of screenplay works.

  *

    Exhibition of creative screen production works:

Screen production outputs to be accompanied by a short practitioner 
introduction and/or post-screening talk.

  *

    Table read/performance of screenplays:

A screenplay or screenplay excerpt to be read/performed, accompanied by 
a short practitioner introduction.


          Submission guidelines:

For Panels, please include a 100-word outline of the panel topic or 
theme under discussion.

For Panels and Papers please send a 300-word abstract outlining each 
paper, 4-6 keywords, and the name and affiliation of each 
presenter/panellist. References are optional (maximum five). If you are 
citing sources, please use APA style. Please also include a short 
biography (100 words maximum) for each presenter/panellist.

For Exhibition of Screen Production Works, please submit a 
preview/excerpt of your completed creative work via online link.

For Table Read/Performance of screenplays, please submit a PDF.

For all screen works and scripts, please attach the accompanying 
information:

- Title

- Name of presenter and other relevant key creative contributors

- Medium/format

- Running time

- A 300-word research statement that contextualises the work. This may 
be a statement that explicates the background, significance and 
contribution of the work. The statement should provide an understanding 
of the context of the work, the community of practice in which you are 
operating, any research question/s your work seeks to address, how the 
importance of the work can be understood, and/or how the impact of the 
work might be measured. Please also include a short biography of the 
presenter (100 words maximum).

Deadline:

Please send your proposals (and any queries) to 
(srn.sightlines2025 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(srn.sightlines2025 /at/ gmail.com)> by 
Friday 14 February 2025. Please await confirmation that your proposal 
has been received.

Conference organisers: Craig Batty, Michael Bentham, Carina Boehm, Sandy 
Cameron, Kath Dooley and Kim Munro.

Please note that a separate call for creative works to be featured in a 
future issue of Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy journal will 
follow the conference-festival.


https://www.aspera.org.au/sightlines-conference
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