Is the Film Industry Fixable?

A hobby. A career tool. Art disguised as commerce. Court asks if our cracked, confused industry can be saved from its commercial bogeymen.
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Image: beset by monsters, the sector struggles to escape. An image from Grendel, Grendel, Grendel, itself an early collision between culture and commerce. 

David Court’s Screen Business program at AFTRS is pretty central to the nerdosphere where screen thinkers can come to grips with our most basic problems, which far transcend the balance sheet. Asked if there was any answer to the pervasive sense of unease about the fate of the Australian film industry, he wrote a piece which encapsulates some of his recent thinking..

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David Court
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David Court is one of Australia's foremost thinkers on the screen content business. He runs the Compton School, Australia’s first dedicated business school for creative people. He was the founding Director of the AFTRS Centre for Screen Business, and a director of Content Capital Ltd.