The Centre
The Centre for Screen Business is a unit of AFTRS formed to promote the development of business knowledge and skills in the screen content industries. The Centre: - offers graduate courses in screen business to media industry professionals
- offers short courses and workshops covering business-related subjects
- conducts practical research to improve business knowledge and know-how in the sector
The Centre's mission is to improve the sustainability of businesses in the sector by disseminating knowledge, skills, data and ideas to business owners and managers. To learn more about AFTRS visit the AFTRS homepage. Staff David Court – director
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. With KPMG, David conducted the feasibility study that led to the development of Fox Studios at the Sydney Showgrounds. As author of Film Assistance: Future Options (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1986), he was the policy architect of the Film Finance Corporation, established by the Australian Government in 1988. Photograph courtesy of QUT. LocationThe CSB main office is located within AFTRS Sydney at the Entertainment Quarter, 130 Bent St, Moore Park.
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Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media: Volume 9
In 2006 CSB's research officer Dr Allan Cameron edited Volume 9 of this refereed media entertainment journal.
New models for feature film development?
A new survey conducted by CSB shows two key tendencies in development times for recent Australian feature films. Click here to read more and to download the full report.
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.
Trajectories of identification: travel and global culture in the films of Wong Kar-wai
CSB research officer Allan Cameron has published an article on the films of Wong Kar-wai in the online journal Jump Cut. Click here to read it.
CSB featured in Artbeat (2007)
The Autumn 2007 issue of DCITA's Artbeat magazine contains a feature on CSB. Click here to download the 1.8mb PDF.
Business process management for the creative industries
This paper outlines the value proposition of Business Process Management, describes the research method and introduces some case studies. [go]
How to build a market in film assets
Is it possible to build a stable market for investors in Australian films? In his second column for Screen Hub, David Court outlines some ideas about building a market for private investors.
Seven reasons why film fundraisings fail
In the first in a series of columns in Screen Hub, David Court critiques film funding failures.
Financing movies and content in the 21st century
1999 paper by Content Capital Ltd Director (and now CSB director) David Court.
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