Petr SzczepanikPetr Szczepanik is an Associate Professor at Charles University, Prague. He has written books on the Czech media industries of the 1930s (Konzervy se slovy, 2009) and on the state-socialist production mode (Továrna Barrandov, 2016). Outcomes from hisresearch on state-socialist producer practices in East-Central Europe were partly published also in Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Culture (Palgrave, co-edited with Patrick Vonderau, 2013). He led the EU-funded FIND project (www.projectfind.cz, 2012-2014), which used student internships for a collective ethnography of production cultures. In 2015, he was the main author of an industry report on practices of screenplay development for the Czech Film Fund. He is now leading the Screen Industries in Central and Eastern Europe Research Group (Charles University, a part of the EU-funded project KREAS), and working on two research topics: 1) the digitalisation of the Czech audiovisual industry, and the impacts of the European Commission's Digital Single Market strategy on film and TV distribution, and 2) the practices and professional identities of post-socialist producers. Read More Read Less