(FilmLab) will provide local emerging filmmakers with a unique tailored development and production opportunity that will allow them to develop their skills and creative capacity and showcase their talents to the world.SAFC Chair, Cheryl Bart

Bryan Mason is co-director of screen media company Closer Productions. Bryan began his career making skateboarding videos and has made four acclaimed skate films. He has won various awards for his short film, documentary and music video work, including a host of Gold awards from the Australian Cinematographers Society (SA/WA). Bryan produced, shot and edited Closer Production's project Necessary Games, a triptych of short dance films which has won awards including best Experimental Film at Melbourne International Film Festival and Best Film and Best Editing at the 2009 SASA awards. Bryan shot and edited the short drama My Last Ten Hours With You which has won numerous awards and travelled the world on the festival circuit. Bryan has produced and directed two, one-hour documentaries for Channel 9 about trekking the Kokoda track and journeying to Mount Everest base camp. He also edited the feature film, My Tehran for Sale and Life in Movement: Tanja Liedtke's Story a documentary about the life and work of choreographer Tanja Liedtke, which Bryan shot, edited, directed and produced.