[Commlist] Tecmerin: Call for Audiovisual Essays

TECMERIN: JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS
CALL FOR PAPERS
https://tecmerin.uc3m.es/call-for-papers/?lang=en

Issues 17 & 18
Call for Issue 17 (June 2026). Deadline: 30th April 2026
Call for Issue 18 (December 2026). Deadline: 30th September 2026

For issues 17 and 18 (June and December 2026), the journal is keeping 
its regular call for submissions open. Broadly speaking, proposals are 
invited that focus on the production, consumption, circulation, and 
cultural exchange of topics related to cinema, television, or the 
digital universe. The journal has a particular—though not 
exclusive—interest in receiving proposals on audiovisual production from 
Spain and Latin America.

In addition, both issues will include a monographic section:

Issue 17: Acting Gesturality and New Forms of Female Subjectivity. 
Coordinated by Gonzalo de Lucas (UPF) and Diana Toucedo (NFA).

Issue 18: Ecofeminisms and Sustainable Leadership in Contemporary 
Audiovisual Media. Coordinated by GENDERCOM (UGR).



Submission Guidelines

Proposals must be submitted to one of the following sections:

Video-Essays: Audiovisual essays that provide a critical perspective on 
aspects of cinema, television, or popular culture more broadly.

Creation: Experimental or documentary proposals that engage with a 
specific cultural field, provided it is related to the history and/or 
practice of the audiovisual domain.

Video-essays must be uploaded privately to VIMEO or YOUTUBE. Each author 
must send the following information to this email: (tecmerinrevista /at/ uc3m.es)

    Video URL (the video must be anonymous).
    Video password.
    A presentation text of 500–800 words in Word format (also anonymous).
    Three to five (3–5) keywords describing the video.
    A representative still frame from the video to be used as the cover 
image if published. This image must not contain the video title.

Neither the submitted videos nor the texts should contain the author’s 
name, in order to facilitate peer review.

Languages: Video-essays may be in any language, with subtitles in 
Spanish and/or English.

Length: The preferred maximum length for video-essays is 10–15 minutes.



Guidelines for the Presentation Text of the Audiovisual Essay

The text must accompany the audiovisual essay and its purpose is to 
explore, from a scholarly perspective, aspects of the piece such as the 
theoretical framework underpinning the essay or the justification for 
the analysis. It must not be a transcription of the voice-over narration 
and should avoid repeating information that appears in the audiovisual 
essay.

The text must include:

    Title of the piece
    Author and full institutional affiliation
    Abstract (up to 100 words)
    Keywords (three to five, listed in alphabetical order)
    Main text (500–800 words)
    Bibliography (and filmography)

As this is an academic publication, the text must engage in dialogue 
with previous theoretical contributions and therefore must cite the 
works on which it draws. These references must appear both within the 
text and in a bibliography at the end (the bibliography does not count 
toward the 500–800 word limit). Works that are not cited in the body of 
the text should not appear in the reference list.

It is also recommended to include a filmography listing the titles 
referenced in the text. Both bibliographic and filmographic references 
must follow APA (7th edition) guidelines, which can be consulted in the 
referenced document.

The presentation text must be written in Spanish or English. If the 
video-essay is accepted for publication, authors are encouraged to 
submit the presentation text in both Spanish and English and to include 
subtitles in both languages in order to increase its reach.

Subtitles: The use of a professional subtitling program such as 
“Aegisub” or “Jubler” is recommended, or, if the proposal is accepted, 
subtitles may be added directly on VIMEO, the platform where the journal 
is hosted. .srt files generated with video editing applications (DaVinci 
Resolve, Adobe Premiere, etc.) are also accepted.

An author who publishes in the journal may not publish again until one 
year has passed.

Contact: <(tecmerinrevista /at/ uc3m.es)>




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