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Neil McCartney is a UK-born journalist, consultant, producer and entrepreneur. He has been co-founder of a number of initiatives, including a series of specialist newsletters for the ''Financial Times'' in the 1980s, the British Independent Film Awards in 1998, and more recently a group of companies which are creating sustainable forestry plantations in developing countries, including NICOL Forests UK Limited. He is chairman of The Independent Film Trust, a UK charity set up to advance the cause of independent film-making, and of the Cambridge Film and Media Academy, an alumnus group for Cambridge University graduates working in film, television and new media. As IFT chairman he helped to set up the masters programme run by the IFT, Raindance and Staffordshire University which leads to an MA or MSc in Film by Negotiated Learning. He is a member of the advisory board of the newly created Amsterdam Film School. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the European Film Academy and of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. == Journalism == McCartney attended Ormskirk Grammar School and then studied Natural Sciences at Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge and social and economic sciences at Imperial College in London. Having written a thesis on new media while at Imperial in 1980, McCartney produced numerous articles on the subject and co-authored the book ''Hunt on Cable TV: Chaos or Coherence?'' which was published by the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom in 1982.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The two lead authors were Neil McCartney and Patrick Hughes )〕 He then became a freelance journalist in media and telecommunications. He was a founding editor of ''Screen Finance'' and ''Mobile Communications'', the FT newsletters on the film and mobile telephone industries, which he ran for more than 10 years,〔(Speaker at the Lunch Club as Screen Finance editor, 15 November 1996 )〕 along with other titles including ''Telecom Markets'' and ''New Media Markets'', until these were taken over by the Informa Group in 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Informa Acquires Baskerville Communications & Assets From Financial Times )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Funding Universe website history of Informa Group plc )〕 During this time he chaired the judging panel for the FT Global Telecoms Awards. While editing ''Screen Finance'' he was responsible for developing and implementing a programme of research which generated the first-ever set of comprehensive statistics on UK film production, distribution and exhibition. From the early 1990s this data formed the core of the report on the UK film industry that appeared each year in the annual yearbook of the British Film Institute.〔(Acknowledgement in "The Stats: an overview of the film, television, video and DVD industries 1990–2003", published by the BFI in 2006 )〕 Eventually the UK Film Council, which was set up in 2000 to develop and promote the UK film industry, set up its own statistics division. When the Council closed in 2011,〔(Article in The Guardian 01 April 2011 )〕 this was transferred to the BFI where it continues to operate today. He continues to write for national newspapers, to act as a commentator for organisations such as the BBC, Sky and The Observer〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Participant in St George's House seminar on Journalism June 2006 )〕〔(Report on BBC News website about flaws in Apple’s Maps application )〕 to speak at conferences and similar events and to serve on industry judging panels.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Winners announced for the 1st MEF Mobile Entertainment Awards )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mobile Entertainment Forum website reference to membership of the board of judges for the Third Mobile Entertainment Awards in 2006 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rushes Soho Shorts website reference to judging panel for festival in July 2011 )〕〔() Rushes Soho Shorts website reference to judging panel for festival in July 2012〕〔() The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival website reference to judging panel for festival in May 2013〕〔() The Smalls Film Festival website reference to judging panel for festival in August–September 2013〕〔(Section on judges on the website for the Sindh International Film Festival, February 2014 )〕〔(Article in Filmmaker magazine on "Organizing the First Sindh International Film Festival", 6 January 2014 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neil McCartney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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