SECOND ANNUAL SCREEN INDUSTRIES
IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE CONFERENCE:
CULTURAL POLICIES AND POLITICAL CULTURE (SIECE)
Sponsored by the Czech Society of Film Studies and Masaryk
University in collaboration with MINE – Media Industries Network
Europe.
The Second Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe
Conference investigates historical and contemporary dimensions
of the region’s audiovisual media industries from all angles – local,
transnational, economic, cultural, social, and political – and
through a broad range of original scholarship delivered in the form
of conceptual papers and empirical case-studies.
THEORIZING SCREENWRITING
PRACTICE WORKSHOP
AN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE (SW)
Sponsored by “The Partnership Network of Universities and Film
Industry” (FIND), an EU project funded by the European Social Fund
(ESF) via the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports – The
Education for Competitiveness Operational Programme (ECOP).
The workshop Theorizing Screenwriting Practice brings together
scholars of film and television, practicing screenwriters, and other
media professionals to discuss changing practices, institutional
frameworks, and the social status of screenwriting in contemporary
screen media.
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE IS FREE OF CHARGE,
and the official language is English.
CONFERENCE&WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Petr Szczepanik (szczepan@phil.muni.cz)
in association with the Czech Society of Film Studies (www.cefs.cz),
the Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture, Masaryk
University (www.phil.muni.cz/wufv), and MINE – Media Industries
Network Europe (www.mine-europe.com).
CONFERENCE&WORKSHOP MANAGEMENT
Adéla Kokešová, Jakub Klíma, Daniela Paulová
(screenindustries@gmail.com; [+ 42] 734173960)
CULTURAL POLICIES
AND POLITICAL
CULTURE
www.projectfind.cz
THEORIZING
SCREENWRITING
PRACTICE
WORKSHOP
AN EAST-CENTRAL
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
22–25 NOVEMBER 2012
MASARYK UNIVERSITY
& MORAVIAN GALLERY
BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC
SCREEN
INDUSTRIESIN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
CONFERENCE:
SECOND
ANNUAL
PROGRAM
SCHEDULE
DAY 1: THURSDAY, 22 NOVEMBER
12:45 OPENING REMARKS
14:00 KEYNOTE 1: IAN W. MACDONALD
(University of Leeds, UK): We Shape Our Tools, and then Our
Tools Shape Us: How Should We Research Screenwriting?
Chair and Respondent: Bridget Conor
15:00 PANEL 1: AMERICAN MODELS, EUROPEAN TV (SW)
Chair: Konrad Klejsa
1. Sylwia Szostak (University of Nottingham, UK): Imitation,
Borrowing, Recycling – American Models
and Polish Domestic TV Drama
2. Tomáš Baldýnský (Producer and Screenwriter, Czech
Television): Adapting Methods of Collaborative Sitcom Writing
in the Country of Sad Loners
3. Magda Bittnerová (Screenwriter, TV Nova, Czech Rep.):
Untold Neverending Story: Czech Soap Opera between
Authorship and Team Writing
4. Gábor Krigler (Script Development Executive, HBO Europe,
Hungary): Running the Show: Adapting the US Writers’ Room
Model in Central Europe
Respondent: Juliane Scholz
16:45 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 PANEL 2: PRACTICES AND COMMUNITIES (SW)
Chair: Bridget Conor
1. Juliane Scholz (Universität Leipzig, Germany):
The Professionalization of Screenwriters in Germany in the 20th
Century with Side Notes on the American Case
2. Petr Szczepanik (Masaryk University, Czech Rep.): How Many
Steps to the Shooting Script? A Political History of Screenwriting
3. Jan Hanzlík (University of Economics in Prague, Czech Rep.):
Transformations and Derivatives: What Production Designers
and Script Supervisors Do with Screenplays
Respondent: Ian W. Macdonald
18:45 BREAK
19:00 KEYNOTE 2: JILL NELMES
(University of East London, UK): The Screenwriter,
the Producer and the Writing Process
Chair and Respondent: Marja-Riitta Koivumäki
20:15 RECEPTION
Governor’s Palace
DAY 2: FRIDAY, 23 NOVEMBER
9:00 PANEL 1: FILM FESTIVALS AND THE COLD WAR (SIECE)
Chair: Lucie Česálková
1. Dorota Ostrowska (Birkbeck College, University of London,
UK): Polish Cinema at International Film Festivals
2. Stefano Pisu (University of Cagliari, Italy): International
Cultural Relations between WWII and the Cold War: USSR
at the Venice Film Festival (1946-1953)
3. Jindřiška Bláhová (Independent Scholar, Czech Rep.):
Marty (1955), the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary,
and Hollywood-Czechoslovak Cold-War Relations
4. Aida Vallejo (University of the Basque Country and
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain): Industry Sections:
Documentary Festivals between Production and Distribution
Respondent: Melis Behlil
10:45 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 PANEL 2: CULTURAL POLICIES (SIECE)
Chair: Anna Batistová
1. Marcin Adamczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland): No
Cultural Policy and Non-Political Cinema? Polish Films after 1989
2. Balázs Varga (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary): The Politics
of Public Support: Support Systems in the Contemporary
Hungarian Screen Industry
3. Michal Bregant (Head of the National Film Archive, Czech
Rep.): Archiving Films for the 21st
Century (and Beyond)?
4. Hana Rezková (Project Manager, Institute of Documentary
Film, Czech Rep.): Broadcasters and/vs. Film Funds:
Policy Coordination and Policy Autonomy in the Funding
of Documentary Films in Visegrad Countries
Respondent: Dorota Ostrowska
12:45 LUNCH
14:00 KEYNOTE 1: ADAM GANZ
(Royal Holloway University of London, UK):
Tight Pants – Screenwriting in the Digital Age
Chair and Respondent: Andrew Gay
15:00 PANEL 3: SCREENWRITING 2.0 (SW)
Chair: Patrick Vonderau
1. Andrew Kenneth Gay (University of Central Florida, USA):
Lean Filmmaking and Screenwriting 2.0: The Screenplay
as Source Code and Interface
2. Matthias Brütsch (University of Zurich, Switzerland):
Three-Act Structure: Myth or Magic Formula?
3. Balázs Lovas (Screenwriter, Story Consultant, Hungary):
Lord of the Block – Script Development at the New Hungarian
National Film Fund
4. Vít Janeček (Documentarist, FAMU, Czech Rep.):
Screenwriting Reality: Does Documentary Need a Script?
Respondent: Adam Ganz
16:45 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 PANEL 4: IDEOLOGY:
TEXTUAL AND RECEPTION ANALYSIS (SIECE)
Chair: Melis Behlil
1. Drehli Robnik (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for History
and Society, Austria): Eastern Promises, Cultural Learnings,
Global Investments, Local Labor: Eli Roth's Hostel Films
as Critique of Ideology
2. Pavel Skopal (Masaryk University, Czech Rep.): New Warriors
Will Arise: A Historical Movie and its Ideal Readership in “PostResolution”
Czech Cinema
3. Fernando Ramos Arenas (Universität Leipzig, Germany):
Film Reception and Political Control: The Leipzig University
Film Club (1956-1966)
4. Györgyi Vajdovich (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary):
Right Wing Ideology in Hungarian Films between 1939 and 1945
Respondent: András Bálint Kovács
18:45 BREAK
19:00 KEYNOTE 2: DAVID S. FREY
(Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, United States
Military Academy, West Point, USA): Pursuing the Elusive
National Spirit with a Camera: Hungary’s Failed Attempts
to Forge a National Film Style During the Second World War
Chair and Respondent: Györgyi Vajdovich
DAY 3: SATURDAY, 24 NOVEMBER
9:00 PANEL 1: CO-PRODUCTIONS AND COMMISSIONS (SIECE)
Chair: Jindřiška Bláhová
1. Philip Drake (University of Stirling, UK): Transnational Coproductions
and National Film Policy – an Uneasy Relationship
2. Thomas Beutelschmidt (Zentrum für Zeithistorische
Forschung Potsdam, Germany): No TV Without Film: Production
Relations between DEFA Studios and Deutscher Fernsehfunk
3. Francesco Di Chiara (University of Ferrara, Italy): Looking
for New Aesthetic Models through Co-productions: František
Čáp’s Sand, Love and Salt
4. Alice Lovejoy (University of Minnesota, USA): Institutional
Competition in State Socialism: The Case of Army Film
Respondent: Pavel Skopal
10:45 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 PANEL 2: INDUSTRIAL SITES AND TRENDS (SIECE)
Chair: Marcin Adamczak
1. Patrick Vonderau (Stockholm University, Sweden):
Beyond Piracy: Understanding Digital Markets
2. Konrad Klejsa (University of Łódź, Poland):
Phantom Pains, Surreal Dreams or Desperately Seeking
HollyLodz (and What David Lynch Has To Do with It)
3. Kevin Sanson (UC Santa Barbara, USA):
Ethnographies at the Periphery: Thinking Transnationally about
Local Production Cultures
4. Melis Behlil (Kadir Has University, Turkey): Law Number 5224:
Charting the Course for Turkey’s Film Industry
Respondent: Philip Drake
12:45 LUNCH
14:00 KEYNOTE 1: STEVEN PRICE
(Bangor University, UK): Creating and Analyzing Characters
in the Screenplay
Chair and Respondent: Jill Nelmes
15:00 PANEL 3: WRITING CHARACTERS (SW)
Chair: Claus Tieber
1. Mirosław Przylipiak (University of Gdańsk, Poland):
Structures, Characters, Trajectories: Scriptwriting
in Contemporary Polish Documentary Films
2. Agnieszka Kruk (Screenwriter, Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa,
Poland): Writing Characters “out” of TV Series
3. Marja-Riitta Koivumäki (Aalto University, Finland):
Poetic Dramaturgy in Andrey Tarkovsky’s Nostalgia (1983):
Minor Characters and their Dramaturgical Function
Respondent: Steven Price
16:45 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 DISCUSSION 1: UNDERSTANDING SCREENWRITING PRACTICES
(SW)
Chair: Steven Price
Magda Bittnerová, Bridget Conor, Adam Ganz, Andrew
Kenneth Gay, Vít Janeček, Agnieszka Kruk, Balázs Lovas,
Ian Macdonald, Juliane Scholz, Claus Tieber
18:45 BREAK
19:00 KEYNOTE 2: ANDRÁS BÁLINT KOVÁCS
(Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary): Hungarian Art Cinema
between the Market and Politics
Chair and Respondent: Drehli Robnik
20:15 RECEPTION & “POSTERS”
Museum of Applied Arts
DAY 4: SUNDAY, 25 NOVEMBER
9:00 PANEL 1: SCREENWRITING PEDAGOGY:
MANUALS AND SCHOOLS (SW)
Chair: Juliane Scholz
1. Bridget Conor (King’s College London, UK):
Screenwriting Manuals and Screenwriting Research
2. Claus Tieber (University of Salzburg, Austria):
Search: Creative Producer – Replace with Screenwriting
Manual: Screenwriting Manuals and their Normative Functions
in Historical Context
3. Pavel Jech (Dean of FAMU, Czech Rep.):
The Pizza Effect in European Dramaturgy
4. Talvio Raija (Aalto University, Finland):
The Rediscovery of the Craft
Respondent: Petr Szczepanik
10:45 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 DISCUSSION 2: MEDIA AND POLITICS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
(SIECE)
Chair: Konrad Klejsa
Marcin Adamczak, Fernando Ramos Arenas, Thomas
Beutelschmidt, Jindřiška Bláhová, Philip Drake, Tereza
Dvořáková, Francesco Di Chiara, Alice Lovejoy, Mirosław
Przylipiak, Hana Rezková, Drehli Robnik, Sylwia Szostak, Györgyi
Vajdovich, Balázs Varga
12:45 CLOSING REMARKS