University degrees: Postgraduate
Course length: 2 years part-time
Course city: Sydney
Designed for a new generation of screen leaders, AFTRS’ Master of Arts Screen: Business and Leadership is Australia’s foremost creative screen business course.
AFTRS is an industry-facing institution, uniquely positioned to offer a blend of theory and real-world practice that is unparalleled in Australia. AFTRS consistently ranks among the top fifteen film schools in the world, and the MASBL delivers a high-level, best-practice postgraduate program in contemporary screen business and creative leadership.
Launched in 2005, the MASBL has trained creative and business leaders across the media sector. It has driven the expansion and growth of new and existing IP, generated sustainable start-ups, and led to the use and monetisation of new technology through highly developed creative business models.
Interested in studying this course but have some questions? Come along to our 2020 Open Day on Saturday 8 August.
Over two years, through a series of weekend intensives across four semesters and an international study tour, you will learn how to develop your own business and career strategy. You will share knowledge on a peer-to-peer basis, forming lifelong relationships, and you will be equipped with the tools required to write a professional business plan.
In your third semester, you will travel overseas for a live business challenge that involves receiving an executive-level briefing and, in the space of five days, creating a real-world business plan that can be pitched back to the executive. This kind of practical experience continues in the final semester with the creation of a Management Report, which brings together creative and financial learnings into one compelling package. Pitched to industry professionals, this capstone project is designed to present your screen business as well as your creative leadership skills.
AFTRS’s Master of Arts Screen: Business and Leadership is designed for the screen leader ready to engage with the unlimited potential of the media industries. Armed with a suite of financial and entrepreneurial skills, graduates of this course will create new businesses, lead creative teams in the public and private sectors, and join a network of screen business alumni operating at the forefront of screen content around the globe.
AFTRS screen business alumni include: Chloe Rickard, Partner and COO, Jungle Entertainment; Nathan Anderson, COO and Executive Producer, Start VR; Peter Drinkwater, CEO of Screen Audience Research Australia (SARA); and Paul Wiegard, Co-owner, Madman.
