Held at Warner Bros. Movie World, within a glittering ceremony that crowns some of the industry best within 10 categories highlighting the depth of incredible talent in Queensland.
The thriving and growing Film Industry here on in South East Queensland is proudly home to an incredible wealth of talent and the following have been named best in the biz.
| 2023 Queensland Screen Business Of The Year Emerging |
Myriad Studios |
| 2023 Queensland Screen Business Of The Year Established |
JMBFX Studio |
| 2023 Gold Coast Screen Professional of the Year |
Gina Black |
| GCFF 2023 Queensland Screenwriting Award 3rd Place |
Human Resources by James Mackenzie Smith |
| GCFF 2023 Queensland Screenwriting Award Runner Up |
Salience by Craig Cauchi |
| GCFF 2023 Queensland Screenwriting Award Winner |
Escape From the Commodore 64 by David Hearne, Belinda Missen |
| GCFF 2023 Best Australian Film |
The Last Daughter |
| GCFF 2023 Chauvel Recipients |
Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin |
Catherine Martin was in attendance at the Red Carpet Award Ceremony accepting the award on behalf of herself and Baz. Catherine is one of Australia’s most respected and admired screen professionals with a hefty list of accolades.
CATHERINE MARTIN: “It’s particularly meaningful to Baz and me to be honoured with the Chauvel Award here in the Gold Coast, where we have based ourselves in recent years making Elvis. The filmmaking community and the city has been incredibly welcoming and supportive and we hope we’ll continue to make our work here in the future.”
BAZ LUHRMANN: “Having lived and worked here on the Gold Coast creating our film Elvis, there is no doubt that this is a town that loves movies and is uniquely suited to making them. As the industry here grows beyond just shooting movies into developing projects here and finishing them all the way through post-production, it’s an exciting place to be for filmmakers both emerging and established. With that in mind, I am deeply honoured to receive the Chauvel Award, alongside my wife Catherine Martin.”
Proudly Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin have adopted our own “Goldy-wood” as their home and join a long list of worthy recipients including Leah Purcell, producers Anthony Buckley, Sue Maslin, Sue Milliken and Jan Chapman, directors George Miller, Rolf de Heer and Gillian Armstrong, actors Sigrid Thornton, Bryan Brown, Deborah Mailman, Heath Ledger and Claudia Karvan, and cinematographer John Seale.
Celebrating its 21st year, Queensland’s biggest celebration of cinema, the Gold The Gold Coast Film Festival is supported by its major partners Screen Queensland, City of Gold Coast, Major Events Gold Coast, Tourism and Events Queensland and HOTA, Home of the Arts.
Browse the program, www.gcfilmfestival.com
ABOUT THE CHAUVEL AWARD
In 2016, the Gold Coast Film Festival reinvigorated the Chauvel Award – a prestigious industry award previously part of the Brisbane International Film Festival.
Established in 1992, in honour of one of Australia’s most significant filmmakers, Charles Chauvel, the Award acknowledges significant contribution to the Australian Screen Industry.
Charles Chauvel was not only born in Warwick and educated in Ipswich and Southport, but started his career in production and direction in Brisbane. He has a strong claim to be considered the most distinguished of Queensland-born filmmakers.
Charles married Elsa Sylvaney, the star of his second film, the silent Moth of Moonbi, and in a partnership that extended over 30 years Charles and Elsa Chauvel completed seven features and a TV documentary for the BBC. Most of these features had major sequences set in Queensland while their epic Sons of Matthew celebrated the pioneering of the Lamington Plateau in the Gold Coast hinterland.
The Chauvels also discovered major film talents including Errol Flynn, Chips Rafferty and Michael Pate, while their 1955 feature Jedda was the first Australian-produced colour film, the first Australian feature invited to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, and, appropriately in terms of this year’s Awardee, the first Australian film to cast Aboriginal actors in its leading roles.
About the Gold Coast Film Festival
The Gold Coast Film Festival is a celebration of film and filmmaking hosted in Queensland’s most dynamic screen destination, the Gold Coast.
Now in its 21st year, GCFF will showcase 12 jam-packed days and nights of amazing films, inspirational panels and special events.
GCFF 2023 will explore diverse stories and unique perspectives on-screen through its short and feature film program and will award a range of prizes across various festival competition strand.
Through GCFF’s charity the Gold Coast Film Festival Public Giving Fund, several free-to-attend industry education events provide wonderful opportunities for emerging and established screen creatives to learn, connect and grow.
Join us at HOTA, Home of the Arts and various iconic Gold Coast event locations between April 19-30 as we present the best of Australian and international cinema along with profiling local and independent films.
The Gold Coast Film Festival is supported by the Queensland State Government through Screen Queensland, Tourism and Events Queensland along with Major Events Gold Coast and the City of Gold Coast.
