[Commlist] Call for Proposals: Joint Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) Conference and Sightlines Festival 2025

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

The University of South Australia 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 
held17-20 September 2025 in Adelaide, South Australia.

Since 2006 the Screenwriting Research Network hashosted an annual 
conference to explore innovative approaches and exciting research into 
the history, theory, practiceand 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 
showcaseand discuss screen-based ‘non-traditional’research outputs. In 
2024 we bring these two important communitiesand events together to 
explore crossoversand connections between theory, practiceand 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, andcreative-practiceresearchers interested 
inscreenwritingand screen productionresearch, and showcasethe full range 
ofscreenwriting andscreen 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-personpresentations 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 exhibitionof screen production research in-progress 
or discussionof screenplay works.

  *

    Exhibition of creativescreen productionworks:

Screen productionoutputs 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 
ashortpractitioner introduction.

Submission guidelines:

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

For PanelsandPapersplease send a 300-word abstractoutlining eachpaper, 
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 ScreenProductionWorks, please submita 
preview/excerptof your completed creative workvia online link.

For Table Read/Performanceof screenplays,please submita 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-wordresearch statementthat contextualisesthe work. This may be a 
statement that explicates the background, significanceand contribution 
of the work. Thestatement 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 seeksto 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 February2025. Please await confirmation that your proposal has 
been received.

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

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


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