David Court

Director, AFTRS Centre for Screen Business
Contact Phone: 
61 3 9602 2300

David Court is Co-Leader of Program 4: Enterprise Formation and Sustainability. David is the founding director of the Australian, Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) Centre for Screen Business. An experienced industry practitioner, David 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 the author of Film Assistance: Future Options (1986), he was the policy architect of the Film Finance Corporation, established by the Australian Government in 1988.