Azrain Arifin (Sunway University, Malaysia), From P. Ramlee to Yasmin Ahmad and Saw Teong Hin: Tragic Love Stories in Malaysian Cinema Across the Boundaries of Time

Raimundo Armele (independent filmmaker, Paraguay), The Screenplay in the Paraguayan Cinema: The Indigenous Language, the Folklore, the Historical Tradition and Other Influences

Fiona Ash Wheeler (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia), Measuring Representational Diversity in Mainstream Film and Screenplays: A Creative Practice (Screenwriting) Research Study

Rita Benis (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Pushing Boundaries: Modernist Poets’ Screenwriting Experiences

Bikash Ch. Bhowmick (University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh), Narrating the Story: Similarities and differences in storytelling between the Bangladeshi contemporary films and films made in its golden-time

Teresa Bosch Fragueiro, Martin Salaberri, Ignacio Berdinas (Universidad Austral, Argentina), Impact of the Super Bowl’s Commercial Narratives on the Audiences

Paolo Braga (Catholic University of Milan, Italy), New storytelling approaches to disability and autism: the cases of Speechless and Atypical

Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK), Welles and Mankiewicz: The Complexities of Co-Authorship (Part 2)

Bobette Buster (Northeastern University, Boston, USA), Pushing the Boundaries, By Creating Audacity

Maria Guilhermina Castro (Catholic University of Portugal, Porto, Portugal), Pushing boundaries of character: The multiphrenic self in Joker

Fátima Chinita (Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Portugal), Updating Allegory for the Post-Cinematic Age: Complexity, Discontinuity, and Desire as Aesthetic Border Crossing

Stephen Curran (independent researcher, UK), Significant Screenwriting Educators of the Studio Era

Rik D’hiet (RITCS Erasmus University College, Brussels, Belgium), The “storification” of reality, how fictional is non-fiction? Pushing the boundaries of non-fiction with fictional techniques

Brian Dunnigan (independent researcher, UK), A Director Under The Influence: the influence and interplay of classical, modernist and post-modernist narrative theories in Michael Haneke’s – The White Ribbon

John Finnegan (Falmouth University, UK), Credit Where Credit is Due: Evaluating the Cost and Creative Value of Screenwriting Labour

Eleonora Fornasari (Catholic University of Milan, Italy), Hybrid children’s television, an Italian case study: La Posta di Yoyo between reality and sitcom

Laura Fryer (De Monfort University, UK), The Angel in the Picture House and The Mad Writer in the Attic: Screenwriting Authorship and Gendered Discourses

Armando Fumagalli (Catholic University of Milan, Italy), Pushing Boundaries: Dark Protagonists in Cinema and TV

Ronald Geerts (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium), Storytelling and active participation in reality and fiction. How boundaries are being pushed in contradictory ways

Ruth Gutiérrez, Pablo Castrillo (University of Navarra, Spain), Showrunners of Spain: Outlooks and Challenges in the Post-TV Writers’ Room

Joakim Hermansson (Dalarna University, Sweden), Characters’ migratory experiences: everything I don’t remember

Dave Jackson (Liverpool John Moores University, UK), The influence of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks and later films on contemporary series drama

Stefanie Johnstone (Catholic University of Portugal, Porto, Portugal), Altered forms: The Hunger Games Trilogy in four parts

Eleni Kouki (Panteion University, Greece), Banned scripts: evidence of censorship in the General State Archives of Greece (1944-1974)

Anna Kumacheva (Lancaster University, UK), Misrepresented Women on screen: How to stop creating “strong female characters” and stay feminist

Maria Macneill (Falmouth University, UK), Beside the seaside: expanding methodologies for story creation and execution

Marco Maderna (Catholic University of Milan, Italy), Turning the local into universal. A priest and a communist’s secret to a worldwide dramaturgy

Samuel Marinov (Georgia State University, USA), Bakhtin’s Theory of Chonotope and Its Possible Applications for Screenwriting Research and Analysis (Part I)

Irina Martianova (Russian State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia), On the way to film (screenplay vs. draft)

Tamara Martin (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria), Women Writing Women: Shaping, Pushing and Breaking the Boundaries of Screenwriting in Hollywood Blockbusters

Ruth Mellaerts (RITCS Erasmus University College, Brussels, Belgium), Screenwriting Teaching Practices. Complex narratives that push the boundaries of the classical narrative

Nadia Meneghello (University of Western Australia), Counterfactual and Alternate History: Breaking Boundaries of ‘Form’ in historical writing. A case study of a screenplay in development

Eva Novrup Redvall (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Iben Albinus Sabroe (University of Southern Denmark), Writing serial drama for the youngest television viewers: How to create audience engagement and appealing public service content in Oda Omvendt for 3-6-year-old children

Bart Nuyens (RITCS Erasmus University College, Brussels, Belgium), Producing intensified narrativity in Belgian TV drama. The case study of De Dag (The Day)

Claire Pasvolsky (University of Newcastle, Australia), There’s Something About Stalking; the Violation of Physical, Emotional & Psychological Boundaries in Contemporary Cinema

Thomas Pope (Minneapolis College of Art and Design, USA), Aristotle and Drama in Crisis

Steven Price (Bangor University, UK), The Robert De Niro Archive and the Screenwriting Research Network

Nic Ransome (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK), It’s a Dog’s Life: How talking dogs generate transgression, reveal the unconscious and tell deep-themed stories

Timm Reimers (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany), The published screenplay and the boundaries of literary genres

Kirsi Reinola (Aalto University, Finland), Pushing the screenwriter’s boundaries with constraints – a case study on the productivity of limitations 

Sarah Renger (University of Leicester, UK), What if Facts Meet Fiction? A German Transmedia Universe using Fictionalised & Fact-based Storytelling across Multiple Media Platforms

Rubens Rewald (University of São Paulo, Brazil), The guerrilla script

Maria Antonietta Romano (independent writer-filmmaker, Italy), Interstellar: Pushing boundaries and emotions through Physics laws and different script stages

Samuel Rousso (California State University, Northridge, USA), “This is a shoot, brother:” The Off-Script Poetics of Professional Wrestling

Jeff Rush (Temple University, USA), Interactive Docudrama: A New Hybrid Genre

Diego Sardi Costa (Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay), Transmedia storytelling: a teaching practice

Siri Senje (Kristiania University College, Norway), The chicken or the egg. Pushing the boundaries of the script development process

Ole Christian Solbakken (Kristiania University College, Norway), It’s all a game, isn’t it? Pushing the boundaries in teaching dramatic writing

Amie Taua (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand), Taika, Truth, and Storytelling: reshaping the coming-of-age narrative in Boy and Jojo Rabbit

Christopher Thornton (Zayed University, Dubai, UAE), Pushing Boundaries: The Mystery of Character

Mikko Vijianen (Aalto University, Finland), Inside Looking Out, Outside Looking In: A Finnish-Kurdish Filmmaking Process

Anubha Yadav (University of New Dehli, India), Screenwriting & Caste in the Hindi Film Industry: A Study in the context of Neeraj Ghaywan’s ‘Caste-ing’ call