Dr Angus Finney is a world leading film and entertainment business specialist, author, and an executive producer. His current executive producing credits include the South African feature Mrs Plum (2025), Malta’s The Theft of the Caravaggio (2025) Dancing Fox’s UK comedy Blueberry Inn (2025) and the Chinese hit TV series The Princess Royal (2024). He is the co-founder and Executive Chair of PROOF OF CONCEPT, an e-learning platform serving the Screen Entertainment industries.
Finney is an ambassador for CogX AI; a British Film Institute and Film i Vast AI consultant, and a public speaker and mentor on artificial intelligence and the entertainment industries. His third edition of The International Film Business: A Market Guide Beyond Hollywood (Routledge, 2022) is now an industry bible. His new book is Hu- man in the Loop: AI and the Film Value Chain (2025), to be followed by AI and the Screen Industries (Routledge, 2026). He is also a co-author of the BFI CoStar Report: AI and the Screen Sector: Perspectives and Paths Forwards, April 2025.
Finney teaches at Judge Business School, Cambridge University, where he is a Fellow and Coach on the MBA programme. He is currently a visiting professor to the Beijing Film Academy, and a Course Director at the UK’s National Film & Television School, the Danish National Film School, Screen Ireland and the British Film Institute. Finney has taught all over the world at the highest levels of the entertainment industry and co-founded the Exeter University/London Film School MA in International Film Business (MAIFB) in 2014.
Finney managed Europe’s Film London Production Finance Market for 10 years. He is the former managing director of Keneth Branagh’s Renaissance Films in the 2000s, and executive produced a slate of titles with talent ranging from Daniel Craig, Glenn Close and Mark Ruffalo.
He was appointed by HMRC as an expert witness in the £1 billion film finance tax litigation case re Ingenious Media among various ex- pert witness appointments over the past decade.
He has a PhD in management and strategy from Bayes Business School. City University London, a MA from New York University in documentary filmmaking and journalism, and a BA Hons from Sussex University in International Relations.
