Eva Novrup Redvall

Short presentation

My research focuses on film and media production, particularly screenwriting and creative collaboration. I also study broader issues related to Danish/Nordic cinema and drama series, among them questions of industry structures, of practitioners’ agency and authorship and of cultural and film policy.

From September 2019 until February 2023 I am the Principal Investigator of the research project Reaching Young Audiences: Serial fiction and cross-media storyworlds for children and young audiences supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Primary fields of research

Selected research topics are:

• film and media production
• screenwriting
• fiction for children and young audiences
• creativity theory and creative collaboration
• industry structures
• Danish/Nordic cinema and television drama series
• practitioners’ agency and issues of authorship
• cultural and film policy
• film criticism

Teaching

I have been teaching and supervising at BA and MA levels on the following topics:

• film and media production
• screenwriting
• creativity theory and creative collaboration
• industry structures
• Danish/Nordic cinema and television drama series
• practitioners’ agency and authorship
• cultural and film policy
• film criticism

CV

Education and employment

• 2015-now   Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
• 2014-2015: Post Doc, University of Copenhagen
• 2011-2014: Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
• 2010-2011: Research Assistant, University of Copenhagen
• 2007-2010: PhD student, University of Copenhagen

Selected professional activities

• 2011-2020 Member of the Adjudication Committee for The Nordic Council Film Prize
• 2016          2 months as visiting scholar at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand
• 2015-2017 Founder and chair of Nordmedia's Division 10: Television and Film Studies (for the Nordmedia conferences in Copenhagen in 2015 and in Helsinki in 2017)
• 2011-2016 Founder and Head of the research priority area Creative Media Industries (CMI) 
• 2010         Organizer of the annual Screenwriting Research Conference (SRN)

Other activities:

Film critic for the daily Danish newspaper Information since 1999

Board member of The Danish Film Institute from 2018

Board member of Carl Th. Dreyers Mindefond from 2017

Part of the programming team for The Göteborg International Film Festival 2002-2016

Current research

From September 2019 until February 2023 I am the Principal Investigator of the research project Reaching Young Audiences: Serial fiction and cross-media storyworlds for children and young audiences supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Before that I have been working on the European research project Mediating Cultural Encounters Through European Screens:

http://mecetes.co.uk

and the Danish research project What Makes Danish TV Drama Travel?

http://danishtvdrama.au.dk

I have also organised three international research workshops Commissioning Creativity and Funding Films together with Inge Ejbye Sørensen at The University of Glasgow

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/research/ccpr/researchinccpr/commissioningcreativityandfundingfilmsworkshops2016-17/

Possible conflicts of interest

I have been a film critic for the daily Danish newspaper Information since 1999 and I regularly do presentations and occasionally preprare reports for the national and international film and television industries. I am a board member of The Danish Film Institute, The Association of Danish Film Critics and Carl Th. Dreyers Mindefond and I am a member of the Adjudication Committee for The Nordic Council Film Prize.