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Location Scout • Gold Coast • Queensland

Location Scout Gold Coast

Forty kilometres of beach, a rainforest hinterland, Village Roadshow Studios and the M1 corridor. Twenty years of Australian location intel, options within 48 hours of brief.

What does a Gold Coast location scout deliver?

A location scout on the Gold Coast turns a treatment into a shortlist of real, available, permittable places, with photographs, access notes, sun and tide, parking and the honest downsides of each. Then, as location manager, the same person secures them: owner agreements, City of Gold Coast and parks permits, neighbour liaison and on-the-day management so the crew can walk in and shoot. Garrett Robinson has scouted and managed locations across Australia for over twenty years, including the Gold Coast sequences for Gymkhana: Aussie Shred in 2025.

The range within an hour is the point: the high-rise skyline behind Surfers Paradise, the quieter southern beaches at Burleigh and Coolangatta, the Spit and the Broadwater, then inland to Springbrook and Lamington's waterfalls and rainforest, Tamborine's villages, and open ground and long roads for automotive work. Village Roadshow Studios sits in the middle of it for jobs that pair stage and location days.

Everything handled, by one accountable person.

The Beach Strip

Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Burleigh Heads, Currumbin, Coolangatta. Skyline-and-sand or quiet point breaks, with council and lifeguard approvals handled.

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Hinterland & Waterfalls

Springbrook, Lamington, Natural Bridge, Tamborine Mountain. Subtropical rainforest, waterfalls and lookouts under Queensland Parks and Wildlife permits.

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Automotive & Stunts

The M1 corridor, hinterland roads and open ground that work for automotive and stunt work, scouted for Gymkhana and locked with the closures and safety approvals they need.

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Studios & Beyond

Village Roadshow Studios for stage and backlot days, Brisbane an hour north, Byron Bay an hour south across the border.

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Brief to shortlist in 48 hours.

Send the treatment, the dates and the budget band. We come back with a shortlist of real options, each with reference images, access and permit notes and a straight assessment of what it will take to shoot there. Once you pick, we secure the locations, run the permits, brief the neighbours, and manage the sites on the day. One person from first scout to wrap.

Location Scout Gold Coast questions, answered.

Against a brief. A treatment, a rough schedule and a budget band are enough to start. Speculative scouting without a brief wastes everyone's time.

Yes. Most international jobs start with a remote scout: photographs, video walk-throughs and notes on access and permits, so you land with a shortlist and use recce days to confirm rather than to search.

Yes. Scout and manager are the same person on our jobs, which means the person who promised the location is the one standing on it at call time.

Easily. They are an hour apart on the M1 and it is the most common way we run Queensland jobs. Brisbane has its own site and pages.

Public land is a permit fee set by the authority; private locations are negotiated with the owner and papered in a location agreement. We quote both plainly against the brief.

More ways we can help your Queensland shoot.

Looking for Gold Coast locations?

Send the treatment. Shortlist within 48 hours.

Start a Brief