Gold Coast Film Festival

The GCFF is supported by its major partners – the QLD State Government through Screen QLD and Tourism and Events QLD, and the City of Gold Coast.

The Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF) is an annual 10 day festival celebrating and promoting all aspects of film and filmmaking from one of Australia's leading filmmaking locations and holiday destinations – the Gold Coast.

From internationally acclaimed dramas, comedies and genre films, incredible Japanese anime, locally made indie gems and family features, the GCFF offers a culturally diverse, interactive and engaging program of film, events and special guests.

For filmmakers and students alike the festival runs a series of free seminars and workshops to educate, inspire and embrace the Gold Coast as a filmmaking destination.

The 13th annual Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF) ran April 9 to 19, 2015. With almost 100 film and film related events in ten different Gold Coast locations, the festival entertained and inspired over 12,600 people. The next festival will run 31st March – 10th April 2016.

International filmmaking was introduced to the Gold Coast in the late 1980's. Fast-forward to 2015 and major international films Unbroken, San Andreas and Pirates of the Caribbean have chosen the Gold Coast's incredible locations and highly competent crew to shoot their multi-million dollar films. The GCFF is our city's flagship film event and helps promote our city as one of Australia's major filmmaking hubs.

Academy Award winner John Cox holds the position of festival patron, and our board consists of notable industry figures including Mike Selwyn (Managing Director – Paramount Pictures) and producer Chris Brown (The Railway Man, Daybreakers).