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\nBy Nathan Hughes Hamilton – https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nat507\/12468333624\/<\/a>, CC BY 2.0<\/a>, Link<\/a><\/p>\n

The past four days have been such a blur of ideas, conversation, food and shockingly warm weather that I’m still having trouble believing it’s Thursday already \u2014 I only flew down on Sunday to get a headstart on things and \u2014. Did I say I’m having trouble believing it’s Thursday already?<\/p>\n

I was very chuffed to attend the 2017 Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) Conference<\/a> in Dunedin this week. It took me a good day or so to get my head around what the SRN<\/a> mean by “rethink[ing] the screenplay in relation to its histories, theories, values and creative practices”.<\/p>\n

Screenplays as more than just the starting points for film and television productions. I could dig that. Kind of.<\/p>\n

Since Monday, academics and practitioners have rubbed shoulders and broken bread together on the Otago University campus, and I thought everyone played rather nicely together.\u00a0Highlights included \u2014 beware shameless name-dropping:<\/p>\n