Wednesday, 21st, Evening: Free Reception and Welcome at Vienna Town Hall
Friday, 23rd, Evening: Dinner at Heuriger
22nd September, 10:00 HS 3
Keynote Eleftheria Thanouli:
complexity and/or accessibility? character, agency and plot structures in post-classical narration
Thursday, 22nd
HS 3 Panel 1, 11:15 – 12:45:
Theorizing Screenwriting
Chair: Rosamund Davies
Paolo Russo:Screenwriting as a complex system
Adam Ganz:Suggesting stories, Storyfinding Venatic narratives, and screenwriting
Steven Maras:Screenwriting, the Doxa, and Symbolic Violence
Thursday, 22nd
HS 3 Panel 2, 15:00 – 16:30:
The Languages of Screenwriting (Research)
Chair: Eleftheria Thanouli
Gabrielle Tremblay & Craig Batty:The Dominance of the English Language in Screenwriting Research
Ann Igelstrom: The Universal Language of Storytelling: a help or a hindrance?
Kim Larkin: Dual Language screenplay and Hybrid Identities
Thursday, 22nd
HS 510 Panel 1, 11:15 – 12:45:
Feminist Screenwriting Historiography
Chair: Kerstin Stutterheim
Anna Weinstein:The Women Writers of Film & Television Website Project: Curated Research & Soft Launch
Pablo Gonçalo: Chains, escape, freedom: speculating with Frances Marion’s unfilmed screenplays
Diego Sheinbaum:Reworkings of the Melodramatic Cinematography Tradition in Mexico: Paz Alicia Garciadiego, Beatriz Novaro and Laura Santullo.
Rosanne Welch:From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S.
Thursday, 22nd
HS 510 Panel 2, 15:00 – 16:30:
Female Voices
Chair: Rosanne Welch
Ana Sofia Torres Pereira:How Women Write Films: A Case Study of Portuguese Cinema
Phoebe Hart: The Local Impact of the Global #MeToo Movement – The Female Voice in Contemporary Australian Screenwriting
Amanda Doherty:Dismantling the patriarchy through screenwriting: Biopics as a tool for readdressing the silencing of women’s history
Carly Wijs & Ernest Mathijs:Sois belle et tais-toi: the dominance of the male gaze in global screenwriting
Thursday, 22nd
HS 415 Panel 1, 11:15 – 12:45:
Teaching Screenwriting Now and Then, Here and There
Chair: Armando Fumagalli
Romana Turina:Globalizing Screenwriting in Class – a Pilot Project for a Novel Method in the Teaching of Character Development
Indranil Chakravarty:Eurocentrism in Screenwriting Pedagogy
Jan Černík:Frank Daniel: The beginnings of a famous screenwriting teacher
Arto Koskinen:Teaching Screenwriting from Inside Out
Thursday 22nd
HS 415 Panel 2: 15:00 - 16:30:
Beyond Boundaries
Chair: Paolo Braga
Anna Zaluczkowska:Writer/Reader as Performer
Anthony Mullins:Beyond the Hero’s Journey — using character arcs to challenge the “triumphant” and “transformative” worldview of the Hero’s Journey in order to encourage alternative storytelling approaches and voices.
Joakim Hermansson: The hero’s thematic journeys in advertisement films
Mike Cummins: Screenwriters in the Global Twittersphere
Thursday 22nd
HS 316 Panel 1: 11:15 – 12:45:
Sounding Screenplays
Chair: Eva Novrup Redvall
Gabriel M. Paletz:Writing Sound in the Screenplay: Innovations in the Hollywood Form
Pascal Rudolph:Sounding Scripts: A Typology of “Screenplay Music”
Claus Tieber:The screenwriter as musical adviser
Thursday 22nd
HS 316 Panel 2: 15:00 - 16:30:
Practice Research Table Read
Chair: Stephanie Schwarz
Maxine Gee with Imke van Heerden & Anil Bas:A Meeting: AI-Assisted Screenplay Generation.
Clarissa Mazon Miranda:The Case of the Partridge Hunt
Beth McCan:A Calling
Thursday, 22nd
HS3 13:30 - 15:00:
round table discussion 1
Diversity: Among Screenwriters – Within Screenplays
Nina Kusturica
Arash T. Riahi
Eleftheria Thanouli
Rafael Leal
Chair: Asja Makarevic
Friday 23rd
HS 3 Panel 3, 10:00 - 11:30:
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Chair: Claus Tieber
Balázs Zágoni:Michael Curtiz's unknown screenwriter
150 years from the birth of Transsylvania’s first glocal screenwriter
Brett Davies: First Empire: Re-examining Leigh Brackett’s authorial presence in The Empire Strikes Back
Friday 23rd
HS 3 Panel 4, 11:45 - 13:15
Non-Western Modes of Narration
Chair: Dina Iordanova
Radomír D. Kokeš: Narrative construction in Czech silent cinema storytelling: National and international tendencies
Kerstin Stutterheim:Natural Light (Természetes fény) (H 2021, Nagy Denes) in dialogue with Come and See (USSR 1985, Klimov)
Margaret McVeigh:Tracing Patterns in Landscape and Meaning in Global Cinematic Storytelling
Ruth Mellaerts:The (un)importance of conflict: looking for different storytelling modes
Friday 23rd
HS 510 Panel 3, 10:00 – 11:30:
De-Colonizing Screenwriting
Chair: Maxine Gee
Christina Milligan:Storytelling in Māori films: a path to decolonization
Phil Mathews:Motivation and character arcs. A truly global approach or the pervasiveness of a western narrative hegemony?
Érica Sarmet:Excess, horror and the wild pleasure in fiction feature screenplays
Friday 23rd
HS 510 Panel 4, 11:45 – 13:15:
Universal Storytelling?
Chair: Nicole Kandioler
Marie Macneill:In Search of Mermaids: is there universality in screenwriting and storytelling?
Ole Christian Solbakken:Pre-word storytelling - a report from an experimental writing process
Rex Obano:Cultural Neo-Colonialism in British/ African Film: The narrative, the Development and the Creation of an "elsewhere"
Friday 23rd
HS 415 Panel 3, 10:00 – 11:30:
Localizing Screenwriting
Chair: Rafael Leal
Kingsley Oyong Akam:Script to Screen: Portraying Social Realism and the Metaphor of Rape in Emem Isong’s Code of Silence (2015)
Chris Neilan:Reimagining the First Act: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and the Languorous Cinema of Place (Videoessay)
Clarissa Mazon Miranda:Screenwriting of Brazilian biographical productions in the context of globalized streaming
Danica Renn-Giles:Towards an understanding of the role of film and viewer value-alignment in local and global fiction film preferences
Friday 23rd
HS 415 Panel 4, 11:45 - 13:15:
(Re)Searching New Paths
Chair: Christina Milligan
Nathali Herold Solon Pilegaard & Heidi Philipsen:The creative potential of storyworlds in screenwriting and -development
Karin Verelst:Technology, representation, narration. Universality from another point of view
Gabriele Sindler & Donat Keusch:Analyzing Screenplays: Development, Practice and Benefits of "The SSO- or *40-Steps-Method" - From practical use to theory and back again
Sam Marinov:Bakhtin's theory of chonotope and its possible applications in screenwriting research and analysis (part I)
Friday 23rd
HS 316 Panel 3, 10:00 - 11:30:
Storytelling in TV and Streaming
Chair: Paolo Russo
Øyvind Vågnes:Narrativizing Cultural and Collective Trauma in Mad Men
Brenda Robles:The first asides of House of Cards, a case of a backstory-based character construction compared against the first soliloquy of Shakespeare’s Richard III.
Luisa Cotta Ramosino & Laura Cotta Ramosino:A broader allegiance: How an Israeli show about an ultraorthodox family became a global hit
Ruth Gutierrez, Pablo Castrillo & Isadora Garcia Avis:Showrunners of Spain: Outlooks and Challenges in the Post-TV Writers’ Room
Friday 23rd
HS 316 Panel 4, 11:45 - 13:15:
Writing for Children and Teenager
Chair: Joachim Schätz
Eva Novrup Redvall & Katrine Bouschinger Christensen:Writing entertaining family fiction with a natural science mission: The case of the Danish television Christmas calendar ‘Christmas of the Comets’
Florian Krauß: Glocal and extended screenwriting in DRUCK/SKAM Germany
Giulia Cavazza: Developing empathy: the adventures of Pinocchio between USA and Italy
Friday, 23rd
HS 3 14:15 - 15:45
round table discussion 2
The State and Future of Screenwriting Studies and the Screenwriting Research Network
Craig Batty
Margret McVeigh
Paolo Russo
Ann Igelstrom
Rosanne Welch
Chair: Claus Tieber
Saturday 24th
HS 3 Panel 5, 10:00 – 11:30:
Authorship Revisited
Chair: Adam Ganz
Tom Freitas: The art of subverting: The post-horror narratives in Robert Eggers work
Birger Langkjær:Social schemes and the unexpected: The scenic unit in Ruben Östlund’s storytelling
Eleanor Yule:Liminality and hybridity in Ben Sharrock’s Limbo (2020)
Rosamund Davies: Authorship and Collaboration in Screenwriting aka How Many People Does it Take to Create an Author?
Saturday 24th
HS 3 Panel 6, 11:45 – 13:15:
Screenwriting Historiographies
Chair: Jan Cernik
Martina Pfeiler:Ulrich Steindorff’s Das Seebiest (1930) as Economic and Ethic Treatments
Rita Benis: How migrant filmmaking shaped Portuguese screenwriting models
Saturday 24th
HS 510 Panel 5, 10:00 – 11:30:
Concepts and Characters
Chair: Claus Tieber
Armando Fumagalli: Dark Protagonists in Cinema and TV
Paolo Braga: Movie speeches – a classification proposal
Marco Ianniello: Character Composition in Serial Drama Are “western” paradigms of character development relevant to scripting long form characters arcs in serial television drama?
Raffaele Chiarulli: From Italian Concept to High Concept. Different ways to a global screenwriting
Saturday 24th
HS 510 Panel 6, 11:45 – 13:15:
Animated Screenwriting
Chair: Irena Georgieva
Northrop Davis: Manga and Anime’s Global Adaptations - How to Make them Well
Maria Oltolini:Once Upon a Time in Japan: Ponyo and the Ecological Fairytale
Artem Prokhorov:Propp and Campbell united: Russian and Western story structures together in Pixar animation
Saturday 24th
HS 415 Panel 5, 10:00 – 11:30:
Remapping Brazilian screenwriting studies
Chair: Pablo Goncalo
Rafael Leal:The embodied script and the end of writing
Fabiano Grendene de Souza: The Short Film Screenplay in Brazil: Space, Dialogue and Social Criticism
Saturday 24th
HS 415 Panel 6, 11:45 – 13:15:
Storytelling and Co-creation for Global Change: A Worldbuilding Methodology
Chair: Paolo Russo
Ash Eliza Smith:We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Environmental Futures and Post-Pastoral Speculation in Flyover Country
Trossero, Ignacio:World Building Storytelling - Junk Global Consortium - Argentina Chapter
Michael Bentham & Mark Carey: Screenwriting as 'Strategy': towards a working definition of narrative fiction filmmaking methodology
Saturday 24th
HS 316 Panel 5, 10:00 – 11:30:
Nations, Cultures, and Screenwriting in Transition
Chair: Craig Batty
Michael Welles Schock:Samurai to Six-Guns: Personal Reflections on a Failed Trans-national Genre Adaptation
Shmavon Azatyan: Cultural Transformation in the screenplay Pam and Dave
Matthew Dabner: What ails the nation? Theme as a site where the nation can be asserted in scripted SVOD dramas
24th September, 13:30 HS3
Keynote Dina Iordanova:
bridging platforms and continents: the normative narrator