David Court
About the seminar
The introduction of The Australian Screen Production Incentive represents a significant change to the Australian screen financing landscape.
In this national series of free seminars, the AFTRS Centre for Screen Business (CSB) delivered practical advice about how to use the new producer offset as part of a finance plan for screen productions.
CSB commissioned three leading producers, who have worked with a leading lawyer and accountant, to create case studies demonstrating how to use the offset as part of a financing strategy for a feature film, a TV series and a documentary. These case studies are analysed by a panel of industry experts.
The seminar was presented in association with FFC, the ATO and state agencies.
Media
Videos of the Melbourne seminar on 23 October 2007 are now available:
Antonia Barnard
Downloads
Participant feedback
- I have to say that the day you organised was absolutely spot on. It was all the information I was looking for, with just the right amount of practical advice from people who know what they're talking about. I felt I'd spent a most useful day and that from now on I'll be just a little less nervous of how it'll all go.
- Many thanks for organising the seminar in the first place. It was immensely valuable, getting it from 'first source' so to speak and not in the least for bringing many people together and getting them to talk to each other!
- Thanks a lot for all the support and information. I found the session illuminating and all the new links are invaluable resources to a newbie like me. Congratulations to the AFTRS, you people do a great job for the industry.
- I found the Producer Rebate seminar very informative - having these spreadsheets will be an excellent help to me.
The panel at the Sydney seminar, 25 October 2007: from left Carolyn Docherty (ATO),
Brian Rosen (FFC), Antonia Barnard (FFC), Brett Thornquest (MoneyPenny) and David Court (CSB)
The Sydney seminar, 25 October 2007
Partners
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Paul Barron
About the speakers
Antonia Barnard works for the Film Finance Corporation. She began her film production career in 1981 as a production manager. Since that time Barnard has gained a wealth of experience working as production manager, line-producer and producer on a series of acclaimed productions.
Paul Barron is an independent film and television producer with over thirty years experience in the industry. His most recent production is the 13 part series Wormwood for the Ten Network. Paul's previous producer and executive producer credits have won over 50 national and international awards.
David Court is the founding director of the AFTRS Centre for Screen Business. David is an experienced industry practitioner who has been involved in the financing of more than a dozen film and television productions (including Strictly Ballroom, The Bank and the IMAX film Antarctica) and was the publisher of the authoritative industry newsletter Entertainment Business Review. He is also a director of the licensed film investment company Content Capital Ltd.
Sue Maslin
Marian Macgowan has produced the feature films The Rage in Placid Lake, Risk, Two Hands, Lilian's Story and the forthcoming Death Defying Acts directed by Gillian Armstrong. Marian's productions have won a number of prestigious awards, including Australian Film Institute (AFI) Best Film for Two Hands, Melbourne International Film Festival Audience Award for The Rage in Placid Lake and representation in AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild), Film Critics Circle and Lexus IF awards.
Sue Maslin is an award winning producer of feature films and documentaries. Sue produced Japanese Story, the most successful Australian feature film of 2003, winner of 8 Australian Film Institute Awards including Best Film.
Bryce Menzies has worked in the film industry for over 20 years as a lawyer on over 250 productions. His executive producer credits include Malcolm (1985), Death in Brunswick (1990), Two Hands (1999), The Tracker (2002) and Ten Canoes (2006). He continues to act as legal adviser on feature films, shorts, documentaries, television series.
Brian Rosen
Brian Rosen is the CEO of the Film Finance Corporation and a film producer with over 20 years of experience in Australia and overseas. Rosen has previously been CEO of Hoyts Productions. He spent 10 years in America as President of Classic Films USA, which had a production deal with 20th Century Fox in the late 1990s.
Brett Thornquest has been working for the past six years with the Moneypenny group as a production accountant and in the business and tax division, providing tax planning advice to domestic and international artists and entertainers.
Further information about the offset
The Knowledge - Producer offset special edition 3
The FFC's Producer offset manager Antonia Barnard gives Andrew Urban The Knowledge. Click here to watch and download the videos.
The Knowledge - Producer offset special edition 2
Bryce Menzies, David Lightfoot, Lizzette Atkins and Richard Guardian give Andrew Urban The Knowledge about the new producer offset. Click here to watch and download the videos.
The Knowledge - Producer offset special edition 1
Cass O'Connor and Tony Ginnane give Andrew Urban The Knowledge about the new producer offset. Click here to watch and download the videos.
Producer offset - news summary
CSB is gathering all the news and information about the new producer rebate for film and television production. Click here to read the latest from government, agency, industry and news sources and to watch and download videos featuring industry experts. [go]
David Court on the new offset
For the first time in nearly 20 years the main mechanism of Federal support is not a government agency but an incentive, open to any investor wanting to back an Australian film... to read the rest of CSB Director David Court's Screen Hub article click here.
