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<b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:25px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">'An Animated Screenwriter: Tales, Tips and Tall Orders from a Writer's Notebook'.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:19px">
<b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:25px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(26,26,26)">When: Tuesday 18th September 6.30pm-8pm</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(26,26,26)">What: Paul Wells talk</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
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<span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(38,38,38)">Professor Paul Wells is Director of the Animation Academy, a research group dedicated to cutting edge engagement with Animation and related moving image practices ( School of The Arts, Loughborough University UK).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px;line-height:19px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(38,38,38)">Paul is an internationally established scholar, screenwriter and director, having published widely in Animation and Film Studies, and written and directed numerous projects for theatre, radio, television and film. He has been involved in animations such as </span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(26,26,26)">Spongebob </span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(26,26,26)">and <i>The Simpsons</i>.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(38,38,38)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:19px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(38,38,38)">His books include <i>Understanding Animation </i>(London: Routledge), <i>Animation and America </i>(Rutgers University Press), <i>The Fundamentals of Animation </i>(Lausanne: AVA),and<i> The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons and Culture </i>(Rutgers University Press<i>)</i>, now all standard texts in the study, practice and research of animation as a field. His work also embraces collaborative texts, including <i>Drawing for Animation</i> (Lausanne: AVA) with master animator, Joanna Quinn, and <i>Re-Imagining Animation </i>(Lausanne: AVA) with Johnny Hardstaff, leading graphic designer and film-maker with Ridley Scott Associates.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:19px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(38,38,38)">For further information of Paul Wells see:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(26,26,26)">This is a joint event organised and supported by The Writing Cinema Research Group & Cinema Studies @ RMIT & The Centre for Creative Arts@ La Trobe University.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px;line-height:19px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(26,26,26)">Contact: Lisa French <a href="mailto:lisa.french@rmit.edu.au" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">lisa.french@rmit.edu.au</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:22px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(38,38,38)"></span></p>
<div><br></div></span><div><br></div>-- <br><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Arial">Lisa French</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:10.0px Arial">Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, Media & Communication,</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font:9.0px Arial">Head of Cinema Studies</p>
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