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Louise Sawtell
Louise Sawtell is an experimental filmmaker and Ph.D. candidate in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University. Her practice-led research project explores a fictocritical and feminist approach to writing stories for the screen. She has published her research in New Writing and the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, and she is co-editor of the Networking Knowledge special issue, ‘Gender and the Screenplay’. Louise’s experimental short films have won awards and screened at film festivals. As a writer-director she is passionate about telling female stories through a multidisciplinary film practice that challenges traditional and industrial storytelling models. She is currently teaching scriptwriting at the Griffith Film School, Brisbane.