OUR IMPACT
Mission embedded, not bolted on.
$1.38
social value for every dollar invested (ASVB forecast)
19
free feasibility and budget reviews for productions in 2026
200
emerging crew and graduates personally answered since July 2026
A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FILM STUDIO
Chrysaor Studios is a Social Traders Certified Social Enterprise and a purpose-converted film and television studio on the Gold Coast. We are committed to reinvesting at least half of our profits in our social purpose: opening doors into the screen industry for emerging practitioners, especially those from under-represented backgrounds.
Australian screen talent is everywhere. Opportunity is still concentrated in Sydney and Melbourne. We want the Gold Coast to be a place where a career in screen starts, and stays.
The Australian screen industry has a structural problem: talent is everywhere, opportunity isn't.
Emerging practitioners from underrepresented backgrounds, including First Nations, LGBTQIA+, culturally and linguistically diverse, regional, and lower socioeconomic communities, cannot access the training pathways, studio facilities, and industry networks concentrated in Sydney and Melbourne.
The industry loses them, and audiences lose the stories only they can tell.
Chrysaor Studios is our answer. We don't talk about social impact as a feature of our marketing. It's the reason the business exists.
Why we're built this way
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Who we serve
We prioritise emerging practitioners who already have credits but face structural barriers to the next step: LGBTIQA+ practitioners; people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds; First Nations filmmakers and storytellers; culturally and linguistically diverse creators; women and gender-diverse practitioners; creators living with disability; Gold Coast and South East Queensland practitioners.
How we deliver
WHAT WE HAVE DELIVERED
Program i.
Industry Placements
Placements delivered with the City of Gold Coast Professional Placement Program and Southern Cross University. Our first placement participant is now developing her own local screen projects. Further work-integrated learning placements are forecast through Bond University and QUT, subject to funding.
CAPITAL BUILD PHASE · 2025/26
Program ii.
Materials Salvaging Initiative
During the build, reusable materials, furniture and accessibility equipment went to Gold Coast community recipients instead of landfill.
WHAT IS NEXT
Program iii.
Chrysaor Futures
A four-month virtual production mentorship for five emerging practitioners per cohort, with time on the Animax Virtual Production Stage, original short-form projects and fortnightly mentoring. Our 2026 Screenrights application was unsuccessful; we will reapply in 2027 and the first cohort is subject to funding.
“Chrysaor’s social impact valuation has been developed with support from Alliance Social Enterprises using the Australian Social Value Bank (ASVB) methodology. The valuation aligns with Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) principles and represents a credible, transparent, and methodologically robust assessment of the social value created through these programs.”
Karina Cousland, Australian Social Value Bank
How we measure it
​Our programs are valued using the Australian Social Value Bank (ASVB) method, which follows cost-benefit analysis principles. Download the statements and our certification below. All ratios are forecasts and will be replaced with actual participant data as programs complete.
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Industry Placement Program: forecast benefit-cost ratio 1.76.
Chrysaor Futures: forecast benefit-cost ratio 1.16, subject to funding.
Combined: $1.38 of social value forecast for every dollar invested, across 11 participants.
What else we have delivered
Free feasibility and budget reviews. In 2026 we gave free feasibility and budget reviews to 19 Gold Coast and visiting productions planning to shoot here.
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The crew front door. Since July 2026 around 200 emerging crew and graduates have written to the studio. Every one gets a personal reply, and where we cannot offer work we point them to who can.
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An honest note. Our 2026 mid-career placement ended early when the in-house production it supported was delayed, and the unused grant was returned to the City of Gold Coast. We report what did not work as well as what did.
Sector leadership
Beyond its own programs, Chrysaor Studios is working to build the Gold Coast’s local screen capacity. In 2026 it supported Griffith University’s Australian Research Council application for a volumetric capture research facility, and Griffith Film School has agreed in principle to partner on volumetric capture services.
It produced a research paper proposing an open digital library of Gold Coast locations for virtual production, briefed across local and state government, after having the Animax stage captured as a 3D digital twin in a 20 minute scan. It has also proposed an independent Gold Coast Screen Association, built through three town hall symposiums, and offered its Varsity Lakes facility as the venue for the first. All three are proposals at the date of this page; none is funded.
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