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