Gold Coast Independent Screen Production: Summary of Research Findings: Gold Coast Independent Screen Production report launch by Gold Coast City Council and the Gold Coast Film Festival

The Department of Economy, Planning and Environment of the Council of the City of Gold Coast commissioned this research as a scoping study of independent screen production activity and capacity in the City of Gold Coast. The research investigates the independent screen industry’s size, value chain and workforce; the screen business ecology; the content formats created; and the views of above-the-line screen content creators on the state of the industry. The following document is an extended summary of the overarching findings of the full Gold Coast Independent Screen Production report.