Chrysaor

27/08/2026

People often assume a studio is only for the big productions. Not so. Here is the range of work that shoots at Chrysaor Studios.

Feature films and series that need a soundstage with real truck access and a crew base on the same floor.
Commercials and branded content using the LED volume for environments that would otherwise mean travel, permits and weather risk.
Music videos, simulated travel, interiors with exterior views, and product work at any scale, from a single panel to the full volume.
Documentary, broadcast and interview productions that want a controlled space close to the airport.
Education, training and rehearsal bookings across both stages.
Interstate and international productions, and we can assist with local crew and supplier referrals.

Two soundstages under one roof at Varsity Lakes, fifteen minutes from Gold Coast Airport and under an hour from Brisbane.

If you are not sure which stage suits your production, tell us what you're making and we'll send a complimentary quote estimate within 24 hours: https://www.chrysaor.com.au/contact

26/08/2026

The Chrysaor Studios facility brochure is out, and it’s a free download.
A purpose-converted film and virtual production complex at Varsity Lakes, built so domestic Australian productions can shoot at studio production values without a capital-city budget. Two soundstages, one site, under an hour from Brisbane.
The Kevin Weldon AO Soundstage: 349 m² of clear floor, a 7 m truss grid, and a loading bay that takes a B-double straight onto the stage. The Animax Virtual Production Stage: Queensland’s only permanent open-access LED volume. Crew base, canteen, undercover area, and how a booking works from first enquiry to wrap.
Productions from Werner Film Productions, The Onset Productions and WildBear Entertainment have already shot here. Competitive rates, clear quotes, no surprises.
Download it here, then book a walkthrough: https://www.chrysaor.com.au/facility-brochure

20/08/2026

A real honour to welcome the Honourable John-Paul Langbroek MP, Minister for Education and the Arts, and Hermann Vorster MP to Chrysaor Studios in Varsity Lakes recently, together with Ian Lynch from Screen Queensland.

The Minister stepped onto Queensland's only permanent open-access LED volume and experienced our simulated travel demonstration first-hand: sitting inside a scene as the world moved photorealistically around him. It is the same virtual production method our films use to shoot any place, any era, without leaving the Gold Coast.

Chrysaor is a purpose-converted, trading facility and Australia's first Social Traders certified social enterprise film studio. Since opening in January we have welcomed more than 300 visitors and serviced four internationally financed productions, while building the education-to-industry pathways the Gold Coast will need as Shadowbox and the Miami Arts Depot arrive.

Thank you, Minister, for taking the time to see what is being built here, and to everyone who helped make the morning run smoothly.

The studios of 2028 will need a trained city behind them. That city is being built right now, at 492 Scottsdale Drive, Varsity Lakes.

Chrysaor Studios is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland's Capital Grants Program.

18/08/2026

Screen Australia's big Screen Currency 2026 report is out, and it captures something we think about every day.

Australians love local stories. 84% say access to them matters. But six in ten of us spend less than a third of our screen time watching them, and only a third find them easy to locate. The stories are getting made. They're just not being found.

The report also lays bare how hard it's become for small Australian companies to hold on to the IP they create. That's the gap Chrysaor was built to close, with affordable stages and virtual production so smaller teams can make work that competes anywhere in the world.

I've written up what it all means for a studio like ours. Have a read: https://www.chrysaor.com.au/post/australians-value-our-stories-the-hard-part-is-helping-them-find-us-what-screen-currency-2026-mean

Chris Amos

Screen Australia has released Screen Currency 2026, its first full read on the value of the Australian screen and games sector in a decade. It runs to five reports, built on research with more than 13,750 people. It is the clearest evidence base the industry has had in years, and it lands on a contr...

03/08/2026

Chrysaor Studios is finished and trading, and we're taking soundstage bookings for the rest of 2026 and into 2027.

Recent work through the building: Scales, a Stan Original feature, Werner Film; Productions The Beach, documentary interviews, WildBear Entertainment; a feature marketing shoot for a global streamer; an international television commercial & Aussie Shore S3 dailies data services.

What's here: a 400m² soundstage with a 325m² main floor, 7m to the truss grid, semi-trailer access and full acoustic treatment.

Alongside it, Queensland's only permanent open-access LED volume, 49.5m², bookable by the day, run in partnership with Animax Studios. Production offices, crew base, canteen and parking on the same site, 15 minutes from Gold Coast Airport.

Rates sit 30 to 40 per cent below equivalent Sydney and Melbourne facilities, and a virtual production day here costs well under trucking in a temporary LED wall.

I'm at 37°South in Melbourne from Thursday and in town until Tuesday the 11th. If you've got something shooting between now and the end of 2027, I'd like to hear about it.

Video: a look at the Chrysaor Studio & Animax LED volume.

24/07/2026

Welcome to the team, Lisa Morel.
We're thrilled to have Lisa join Chrysaor Studios through the City of Gold Coast Professional Placement Program. With more than ten years across scripted film and television, from Production Office Coordinator to SFX Coordinator to Costume and creative producing, Lisa brings exactly the kind of experience and generosity our studio was built to back.
She's also the founder of Screen Queens, the Gold Coast women's screen networking group with 460+ strong, so championing pathways for emerging practitioners is already in her DNA.
Chrysaor is Australia's first Social Traders-certified social enterprise film studio. We reinvest at least half of our profits into pathways for emerging screen practitioners from underrepresented backgrounds, and hosting placements like this is that mission in action.
"Lisa is exactly who Chrysaor Studios is built for. Backing her through the City of Gold Coast Professional Placement Program is what a social enterprise studio is meant to do: take real talent and give it a real pathway," Chris Amos, Founder and CEO.
The Professional Placement Program is a City of Gold Coast Arts and Culture Unit initiative.

21/07/2026

Access should be the standard in filmmaking, not a luxury. Today reminded me how close we are to making that real.

Stephanie Dower and Jaden from Dower Productions came down from Brisbane to see the AniMax Studios Australia Virtual Production Stage at Chrysaor.

Chrysaor Studios is now open access, which means anyone can use it. A rainforest, a coastline, a city street at golden hour, all reached from one flat, controlled floor. No flights. No long hauls to remote locations. No terrain that quietly decides who gets to be on the crew and who gets left behind.

That is access and sustainability in the same breath. Safe, because the environment is built for everyone who needs to work in it. Sustainable, because we are not moving cast, crew and trucks across the state to chase a location. The set comes to you.

This is the advocacy we are getting behind, and the timing matters. Brisbane hosts the Paralympic Games in 2032. Between now and then, Queensland has a rare chance to build a screen industry that is inclusive by design rather than as an afterthought. We want Chrysaor to be part of that story.

Stephanie and I are already deep in one documentary, and today we started mapping a slate built around access from the first frame. This is only the beginning. Dower Productions

20/07/2026

Thanks IF magazine for the great write-up. Proud to be building a social enterprise model into virtual production here on the Gold Coast.
Beyond the LED volume, we run two full soundstages, that’s genuinely accessible and cost-affordable compared to the big end of town. Curious what we can do? Grab our free 22-page Virtual Production Compatibility paper: www.chrysaor.com.au Got a project in mind? Send it through and we’ll come back within 24 hours on what’s feasible and where we can maximise your budget.

Chryasor Studios on the Gold Coast is a production facility with a twist. As a certified social enterprise, it reinvests at least 50 per cent of its profits towards building career pathways for emerging screen practitioners from underrepresented backgrounds.

16/07/2026

A recent Screen Australia report, the Production Infrastructure and Capacity Analysis (PICA), prepared by Olsberg SPI, names four structural challenges facing the Australian screen sector: business sustainability, career progression, training, and infrastructure.

We read it a little differently to most. For us, those four themes are not a warning. They are a description of the business we already run.

Chrysaor Studios was established as an open-access, social enterprise facility on the Gold Coast: two stages available to productions of any scale, real training on real equipment through AniMax, Queensland’s only permanent open-access LED volume, and a model that reinvests half of profits into local jobs, training and emerging crew.

Since opening we have hosted work for Netflix, Paramount, WildBear Entertainment and others. The demand PICA describes is real, and so is the capacity constraint it identifies. We were built to help ease it.

Founder Chris Amos on why it matters. Full piece in FilmInk:

Chrysaor Studios says the Production Infrastructure and Capacity Analysis describes the exact gaps its open-access, social enterprise model was built to close.

14/07/2026

200+ of you turned up to the Gold Coast Virtual Production Showcase, and the buzz hasn't stopped.

So we've made something for you: the Chrysaor Studios Virtual Production Capability Guide. Free. Tier structures, real use cases, pricing, facility specs, and what VP actually is (and what it isn't).

No sales pitch. Just the facts. Grab it here: https://www.chrysaor.com.au/virtual-production