Outputs (11)

Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Neilan, C. (in press). Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory. Bloomsbury Publishing

Since the emergence of Syd Field’s Screenplay in 1979 and the modern screenwriting gurus that followed, Western cinema has undergone a profound conventionalisation process, deifying the single protagonist quest narrative, with its roots in Aristoteli... Read More about Narrative Structure in the Iranian Screenplay: An Analysis of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman’.

Meet Big Bird (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. Meet Big Bird. [Short film]. 10 July 2024 - 13 July 2024

The Karen ethnic minority, from Karen State in southeastern Myanmar, have been fighting for independence since 1948—the longest running civil war in the world. The Myanmarese junta have committed well-documented war crimes and acts of ethnic cleansi... Read More about Meet Big Bird.

Mother & Daughters (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. Mother & Daughters. [Short film]. 10 July 2024 - 13 July 2024

The Lahu people, an ethnic group originating in China and other parts of southeast Asia, began moving into Thailand probably in the 1870s or 1880s due to oppression in China. Lahu hill tribes in Thailand today total between 60,000 to 100,000 people,... Read More about Mother & Daughters.

Love and Border (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. Love and Border. [Short film]. 10 July 2024 - 13 July 2024

Mae Sot is a border city in western Thailand, a few kilometres from the border with Myanmar, and home to sizeable community of Myanmarese migrants and refugees. Myanmar’s severe political and economic problems, including violent oppression of ethnic... Read More about Love and Border.

Writing the Cine-Poetic: an Analysis of Screenwriting Technique in the Cinema of Lynne Ramsay (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neilan, C. (2023, September). Writing the Cine-Poetic: an Analysis of Screenwriting Technique in the Cinema of Lynne Ramsay. Paper presented at Screenwriting Research Network Conference 2023, Stephens College, Missouri, USA

Lynne Ramsay has been called one of the most distinctive British filmmakers of her generation, yet despite her renown as a director she rarely receives attention nor credit for her mastery of screenwriting technique. Her early short films demonstrate... Read More about Writing the Cine-Poetic: an Analysis of Screenwriting Technique in the Cinema of Lynne Ramsay.

Moving Away From the Monoplot: Conventional Narrative Structure in the Screenplay and the Unconventional Alternatives (2023)
Thesis
Neilan, C. (2023). Moving Away From the Monoplot: Conventional Narrative Structure in the Screenplay and the Unconventional Alternatives. (Thesis). Manchester Metropolitan University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/4245408

Through a combination of creative and critical practice, this project seeks to explore the conventionalisation effect that popular screenwriting handbooks have had on screenwriting practice, the unconventional structural models that are available to... Read More about Moving Away From the Monoplot: Conventional Narrative Structure in the Screenplay and the Unconventional Alternatives.

Reimagining the First Act: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and the Languorous Cinema of Place (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neilan, C. (2022, September). Reimagining the First Act: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and the Languorous Cinema of Place. Paper presented at Screenwriting Research Network Conference 2022, University of Vienna, Austria

According to the conventional (Western) model, the typical first act is split into two distinct sections, each with distinct functions. The first (1.1) functions primarily to establish a protagonist and to interrupt their life with an inciting incide... Read More about Reimagining the First Act: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and the Languorous Cinema of Place.

Welcome to Thoo Mweh Khee (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. Welcome to Thoo Mweh Khee. [Short Film]. 11 March 2021 - 14 March 2021

Official Selection, Manchester Film Festival 2021

Welcome to Thoo Mweh Khee (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. Welcome to Thoo Mweh Khee. [Short Film]. 10 March 2021 - 17 March 2021

Official Selection, Demetera International Short Film Festival 2021; Winner, Best Short Documentary.

Welcome to Thoo Mweh Khee (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. (2020). Welcome to Thoo Mweh Khee. [Short Film]. 23 September 2020 - 27 September 2020. (Unpublished)

Official Selection, Bellaria Film Festival 2020

Demons (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Neilan, C. Demons. [Short Film]. 29 April 2016 - 8 May 2016

Official Selection, Derby Film Festival 2016