Mark Ryan is Research Leader, Creative Arts, and Senior Lecturer in Film, Screen and Animation for the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is the co-editor of the Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 and Australian Screen in the 2000s (Palgrave Macmillan). His research has been published in such journals as New Review of Film & Television Studies, Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture and Policy, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Senses of Cinema, Studies in Australasian Cinema, and Creative Industries Journal. He is currently the President of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAAZ) and an Executive Member of the Australian Screen Producers Education and Research Association (ASPERA).