Production: the benefits of formal education
Pamela Wilson Endrina, coordinator for research programs at the Victoria University, told Miguel Gonzalez how the Professional Certificate in Executive Screen Production is helping producers develop their skills, particularly in the areas of budgeting, financing and fundraising.
Does Australia need more courses for producers?
Absolutely – there are very few producer focused courses to begin with and of these only a handful consider the business end of making product. Apart from our course I can only think of a few short courses offered by AFTRS and the Diploma offered by AFTRS at the Centre for Screen Business.
What does your course offer in those areas?
Having dealt with a few producers on account of some resources in old film stocks, sure I think education is a real need.
But the better word would be Producership: taking on the role, whereas Production is an abstraction (widely seen as the bane of university study for busy people, and not relevant to Professional Certificate awards).
Sorry to be picky: How does a coordinator of RESEARCH come to be in charge of a Prof Cert course?