ABOUT CHRYSAOR
Pioneering the Future of Australian Screen
A NEW ERA FOR
SCREEN PRODUCTION ON THE GOLD COAST
Chrysaor Studios represents a new model for the Australian screen industry – a company that combines world-class production facilities, compelling content distribution, and award-winning productions, all driven by social enterprise principles.
As a Social Traders-certified organisation, we reinvest profits into industry development, emerging talent programs, and initiatives that create a more diverse and sustainable screen sector.
Christopher Amos is an Australian-British filmmaker, director, writer, and producer. His 2021 documentary feature Hating Peter Tatchell, executive produced by Elton John and David Furnish and featuring Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry, premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival before a global release on Netflix. The film won the Audience Award at the Queer Screen Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival and the People's Choice Award at the Montreal International Documentary Festival, and earned Chris nominations for Best Director (Australian Directors' Guild) and Best Documentary (Screen Producers Australia).
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Chris's earlier producing credits include Dressed as a Girl (2015), a documentary following East London's alternative drag scene. In 2024, he expanded into distribution, acquiring Australian and New Zealand rights to the Academy Award-nominated documentary Four Daughters.
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He studied Film and Television at QUT, completed a Master's in Scriptwriting at Regent's University London, and holds Raindance diplomas in Producing and Documentary Filmmaking. Before film, he was Editor-in-Chief of the UK's Bent Magazine and founded Manbar, a Soho nightclub known for its role in the 2013 international boycott of Russian vodka in protest against Russia's anti-gay laws.
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His industry development includes Screen Producers Australia's Ones To Watch (mentored by Tony Ayres), Screen Australia's Enterprise program (mentored by Michael McMahon and Chris Loveall), and a three-month residency at World of Wonder in Los Angeles with Emmy-winning showrunner Fenton Bailey.
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Chris is the founder and CEO of Chrysaor Studios, Australia's first social enterprise film studios, commercially operational on the Gold Coast since January 2026. The Kevin Weldon AO Soundstage is named for his great-uncle, who founded Hanna-Barbera Australia.
"Every filmmaker I know started the same way: scraping together a crew, begging for a location, working twice as hard for half the budget. Chrysaor Studios with Animax Virtual Production Stage exists because Queensland has extraordinary talent and nowhere affordable to make the work. Independent film shouldn't be a luxury. It should be a pathway."
About Founder Christopher Amos
Christopher's great-uncle was discovered through his mother's adoption story. They met only once, at Gwinganna in the Gold Coast hinterland in 1999, and kept a correspondence in Kevin's later years, trading Brisbane Grammar School archives and stories about building businesses with purpose.
Both Queensland-born. Both Grammar boys. Both builders. Kevin founded Hanna-Barbera Australia in 1972, the country's first large-scale animation studio, the business that became Endemol Shine Australia and is now part of Banijay. He built Weldon International into one of Australia's great publishing houses, published the first edition of The Macquarie Dictionary, founded Earthwatch Australia, established Gwinganna on the Gold Coast, and served as founding president of the International Life Saving Federation.
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He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1994 and posthumously promoted to Officer (AO) in 2024 for distinguished service to publishing, surf life-saving, animal welfare, and philanthropy.
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Kevin's conviction that business should serve a greater purpose sits at the heart of Chrysaor Studios. It's why we operate as a Social Traders Certified social enterprise, the first film studio in Australia to hold that accreditation, and why every booking here contributes to training, opportunity, and community impact beyond the screen.
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Family isn't always about how often you meet. It's about the values you share.
The Weldon Legacy
Christopher Amos with his great-uncle Kevin Weldon AO at Gwinganna, 1999. A connection discovered through his mother's adoption story, and the inspiration behind Chrysaor Studios.
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