Keynote speakers

Peter Krämer

Auteurism, Adaptations and Beyond: Reflections on 40 Years of Studying Production Histories and Story Development

Peter Krämer is a Senior Research Fellow in Cinema & TV in the Leicester Media School at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK). He also is a Senior Fellow in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and a regular guest lecturer at several other universities in the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic.

He is the author or editor of twelve academic books and has published over ninety essays in academic journals and edited collections. Drawing on extensive archival research, much of his work – including short monographs on The General, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and American Graffiti – deals, among other things, with production histories, in particular story development. 

Donat F. Keusch & Gabriele C. Sindler

PROCLAMATION ON BREAKING THE RULES! 
Insights into the skills and the practical art of story & script development.

Tribute to František Daniel – The “unknown” whiz of script analysis and -writing.

Donat F. Keusch and Gabriele C. Sindler are CEO & COO of DFK FILMS | dfk script*service. The company has an expertise of more than 3,000 script evaluations. Based on the specific needs of film production, national and worldwide distribution, and financing, DFK FILMS offers the evaluation, in depth analysis, and improvement of screenplays. The basic tool is the newly developed and approved technique: the Story-Step-Outline (SSO) | *40-Steps-Method. The method is the fundamental step towards a psychoanalytical approach to the author’s intentions. 

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