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Andrea Buck

Andrea is co-founder of The Picture Tank and has been working in film and TV for over two decades in production, development, writing, marketing and distribution. After spending 12 years working between South Africa and Los Angeles she returned home to Melbourne, with five feature credits to her name, including Running Wild with Brooke Shields and Martin Sheen. In 2007 she produced and was instrumental in the DIY marketing and distribution of The Jammed, alongside distribution start-up Titan View. The Jammed was considered by some of our leading critics to be the best Australian film of the year, achieved the highest opening week screen average of any independent Australian film in history, achieving $63,000 on a single screen, growing to 42 screens and a twenty week run. Among other awards it won Best script, Best Film, Best Music at the IF awards, 7 AFI nominations. She recently completed a Masters in Screen Art and Business at AFTRS, and furthering her thesis research she actively promotes data transparency in the film industry with a desire to empower independent filmmakers. She continues to develop and produce film and television projects and corporate content at The Picture Tank.

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David Court is Subject Leader, Screen Business at the Australian Film Television & Radio School. He has been involved in the financing of more than a dozen film and television productions including John Weiley’s Antarctica, Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom, Dean Cavell’s The Wiggles Movie, Jerzy Domaradski’s Lilian’s Story, Robert Connolly’s The Bank, Guy Gross's Old Tom, Andrew Horne's Leunig Animated and Don Featherstone’s The One Percenters. David was founding editor of the highly regarded industry newsletter Entertainment Business Review. As author of Film Assistance: Future Options (Allen & Unwin, 1986), he was the policy architect of the Film Finance Corporation, established by the Australian Government in 1988.

 In 2010, with Sir Peter Jackson, he undertook a review of the New Zealand Film Commission for the NZ Government. David holds a PhD from the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. His thesis, Shakespeare's Fortune: how copyright has failed authors and why it matters, is available at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12432

 

Deb Verhoeven is Professor and Chair of Media and Communication at Deakin University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention. Until 2011 she held the role of Director of the AFI Research Collection at RMIT University. A writer, broadcaster, film critic and commentator, Verhoeven is the author of more than 50 journal articles and book chapters. Her most recent book isJane Campion published in 2009 by Routledge, a detailed case study of the commercial and cultural role of the auteur in the contemporary film industry.

In 2008 Verhoeven was appointed inaugural Deputy Chair, National Film and Sound Archive (Aust.). In 2011 she was elected to the inaugural committee of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). She serves on the Digital Futures Advisory Council for the government of Tasmania and is an Advisory Group member for the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Find and Connect Web Resource.

Open Channel is Victoria’s independent screen industry skills centre.

A not for profit, membership-based organisation, Open Channel creates pathways to industry for entry level, emerging and early career practitioners. We provide training, professional development and innovative production support programs. We identify emerging talent, developing people and projects from across Victoria, including those from diverse Aboriginal language groups. (Open Channel)

 

The Transparency Project: This nonprofit project is collecting and sharing current data on independent film revenue and expenses in order to help filmmakers be more creative and efficient in funding, marketing and releasing their work.

 

 

 

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