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DAVID COURT

Head of Screen Business

David Court is the founding Head 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). He was the publisher of the authoritative industry newsletter Entertainment Business Review.

 

With KPMG, he 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.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tasmania and is working on a PhD in Public Policy program from the Australian National University.

Bachelor of Arts, University of Tasmania

Currently working on a PhD, Public Policy program, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, Australian National University

Director of Centre for Screen Business, Founder

California Institute of Technology, Researcher "Predicting performance of copyright assets" with Prof Charles Plott

Adelaide University, Screen Producers Association of Australia, Consultant

Australian Interactive Media Industry Association, Consultant - chaired steering group for DITR-funded survey and study, 'Rendering Perspective'

Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Consultant

Content Capital Ltd (Film Licensed Investment Company), Director

Australia Council, Economic consultant

Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, Economic consultant

Australian Film Commission, Economic consultant

Australian Screen Directors Association, Economic consultant

BBC Enterprises, Economic consultant

Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics, Economic consultant

Department of Communications and the Arts, Fox Studios Australia, Economic consultant

Fred Hollows Foundation, Economic consultant

Heliograph Pty Ltd (Antarctica), Economic consultant

KPMG Management Services, Economic consultant

NSW Film and Television Office, Economic consultant

Office of Film and Literature Classification, Public Broadcasting Association of Australia, Economic consultant

Screen Producers Association of Australia, Economic consultant

SBS-TV, Economic consultant

Television New Zealand, Economic consultant

M & A Films ('Strictly Ballroom'), Economic consultant

Village Roadshow Pictures, Economic consultant

Western Australia Lotteries Commission, Economic consultant

XYZ Entertainment, Economic consultant

Yoram Gross Film Studies, Economic consultant

Australian Film Commission, Policy Adviser

Australian Film Commission, Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive

Public Services Board, Research Officer

Books

David Court, Film Assistance, Future Options, 1986, Sydney, Allen & Unwin


Articles

Editor, Entertainment Business Review (EBR) (issues 1 - 52)

EBR: The Content Letter (issues 1-10)

Plus articles in The Australian Financial Review, Broadcast Magazine (UK), Media Information Australia and Moving Pictures International



The One Percenters, 2005, Executive Producer

Sydney, Story of a City, 1999, Executive Producer

Solarmax, 2000, Executive Producer

Lilian's Story, 1995, Executive Producer