Dear All, 
Yay! Our BAFTSS Practice SIG event was approved - the mooted date was Saturday 23 November, which Phil Powrie has penciled in.
Just getting a sense of whether people are interested in submitting something before I firm up the date and distribute the call for papers.
Please reply to this email to give a sense if you've got some work you'd like to share - I think it will be a great platform for practice reaching a wider audience. See blurb below.
All the best,
Charlotte

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Filmmaking in the Academy: Practice / Theory Interventions

This free one-day symposium is a celebration of filmmaking in the academy, where practice researchers screen their work and the research dimensions are critically explored with a mixed panel of established, early career and PGR researchers from both practice and traditional film studies backgrounds. The call for papers will invite practitioners to submit films and moving image works readily available to view online (can be password protected), together with a 300-word research statement and links to supporting documentation if applicable (echoing REF guidelines for practice research).

The organisers will then make the work available to an invited panel of respondents: Professor Andrew Spicer (UoA34 lead, UWE Bristol), Dr Jacqueline Maingard (co-convener of the Screen Research Cluster, University of Bristol) and Phil Powrie (University of Surrey), who are all interested in engaging critically with practice research.

At the event the work will be screened with a brief presentation, followed by peer review, which will be performed live at the event in an informal, friendly and constructive environment.

Together with the filmmakers, and the audience, the panel will aim to probe the Significance, Rigour and Originality and contribution to new knowledge of the presented works from a variety of theoretical frameworks, including textual analysis, screen industries and genre studies - with a view to supporting the contributors in honing the way in which they articulate their practice as research.

Practice work and the resulting conversations could be written up and submitted as a strand to Open Screens.

The aims of the event are threefold:

1. to provide space to communicate the value of practice research in preparation for REF21
2. to act as a pilot for a potential strand at future BAFTSS Annual Conferences to avoid practice speaking only to practice
3. to encourage colleagues to submit practice for consideration by the journal.

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