Scandinavian Screen Mobility

08:30
Registration and morning coffee & pastries

9:10
Welcome

09:15
Keynote I: The New Geography of Screen Production: Peripheral Manifestations of SVOD Hypermobility by Petr Szczepanik

10:15
Break

10:30
Session I: Incentives and Policy Landscapes

• Production Incentives as Frenemies of European Co-Production by Petar Mitric
• Danish Runaway Film Production in the Czech Republic by Kim Toft Hansen

 Short break

• Tom Cruise Was in Norway – and So What? An Overview of the Norwegian Film and Series Incentive Scheme by Stine Agnete Sand
• Screen Agencies and the Changing Funding Landscape for Film and TV by Inge Sørensen

12:30
Lunch

13:30
Keynote II: Solar Shoots with Cloudy Days Ahead: Tracing the Links between Mobile Production, Energy Transitions, and Digitalisation in Nordic Screen Media by Pietari Kääpä & Hunter Vaughan

14:30
Fika (coffee and pastries)

14:45
Session II: Environmental and Historical Perspectives

• The Lithuanian Tax Incentive, Swedish Runaway Shoots, and the Nordic-Baltic Regioscape: Environmental Perspectives on Screen Media Production by Anna Mrozewicz & Ilona Jurkonytė
• How a US Runaway Production Led to the Foundation of a Danish Film Workers Union: The Case of Salem Come to Supper by Isak Thorsen & Eva Novrup Redvall
• Mapping Danish Runaway Production: Genres, Geographies, and the Aesthetics of Going Elsewhere by Anders Grønlund

16:15
Closing remarks

Petr Szczepanik is an associate professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), and his research focuses on East-Central European screen industries, their production cultures and platformization. He co-edited Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Culture (Palgrave, 2013) and Digital Peripheries: The Online Circulation of Audiovisual Content from the Small Market Perspective (Springer, 2020). His latest book is Screen Industries in East-Central Europe (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is a member of the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project (https://gmicp.org). He has been engaged in public policy development and collaborated with various public institutions, including the Czech public service television and the Czech Audiovisual Fund.

Pietari Kääpä is Professor in Media and Communications at the University of Warwick. He works in the field of environmental media studies with a focus on media management and production cultures studies. He has published widely in the field of environmental media studies, including Transnational Ecocinemas (Intellect 2013, with Tommy Gustafsson), Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas (Bloomsbury, 2014), Environmental Management of the Media: Industry, Policy, Practice (Routledge 2018) and Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Change (Palgrave 2022) (with Hunter Vaughan). He is PI (with Vaughan, University of Cambridge) of the AHRC Global Green Media Network.

An environmental media scholar and cultural historian focusing on the relationship between media technologies, social justice and the environment, Hunter Vaughan is Assistant Professor of Environmental Media in the School of Film, TV, and Media Arts at Emerson College. Dr. Vaughan is the author of Where Film Meets Philosophy (2013) and Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: the Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (2019) as well as numerous articles, and co-editor (with Tom Conley) of the Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory (2018) and Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis (with Pietari Kaapa, 2022). He is co-founding editor (with Meryl Shriver-Rice) of the Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Press); Co-Director of the AHRC-funded Global Green Media Network; and Co-Principal Investigator on the Sustainable Subsea Networks project.