Fourth Screenwriting Research Network International Conference

Brussels, 8-9-10 September 2011

The 4th Screenwriting Research Conference creates an interdisciplinary forum addressing all aspects of research in screenwriting; theory and practice. Screenwriting, the generation and development of ideas for screenworks for different media is a complex collaborative creative activity. It raises questions about existing and future industrial practice, structures, and power; about cultural variation and influence; and about individual taste, judgement and habitus. We want to discuss the crossing of media boundaries in cultural, metaphorical and physical senses. It encompasses trans and cross-mediality as well as the real or imagined differences between scriptwriting practitioners and theoreticians.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Jean-Claude Carrière (Screenwriter)

David Bordwell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Steven Price (Bangor University)

Marida di Crosta (Université de Lyon 3)

Organised by the Master of Arts, film industry writing and analysis of the   Université Libre de Bruxelles, MAD-Faculty with support of Associatie KULeuven (Sint-Lukas), Associatie Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Rits-Erasmushogeschool)

Made possible by FNRS, FWO, ULB, VAF, Cinematek, Scenaristengilde

 met de medewerking van Patrick Duynslaegher, artistiek directeur Filmfestival Gent