Closer Productions is an Adelaide-based film production co.
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Closer Productions is a collective of award-winning filmmakers based in Adelaide, South Australia. The Closer team has created entertaining and provocative documentary, drama and experimental films, which have screened in cinemas, TV, art galleries and at major festivals around the world. Closer creates work for all kinds of screens and many different audiences. Closer also operate a services arm catering to a broad range of clients across education, business and the arts.
Bryan Mason
Bryan Mason is a multi-skilled co-director of Closer Productions and an award winning editor and cinematographer. His career began with the production of four acclaimed skateboarding films. In 2009, Bryan edited the feature film My Tehran for Sale (TIFF and Pusan film festivals 2009). Bryan has shot and edited a number of films including Ok, Let’s Talk About Me (2005), My Last Ten Hours With You (2007), Elephantiasis (2010) which premiered at the 2010 Melbourne Int’l Film Festival; and Necessary Games (Winner Best Experimental at 2009 Melbourne Int’l Film Festival & 2010 Brooklyn Int’l Film Festival). In 2010, Bryan shot, edited and co-produced the feature documentary Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure. Most recently Bryan directed his debut feature documentary Life In Movement (2011), dealing with the tragic death of rising-star choreographer Tanja Liedtke.
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Matthew Bate
Matthew Bate creates documentaries dealing with obsessive people, pop-culture and outsider artists. His 2006 film, What The Future Sounded Like, is a visual and sonic exploration into the genesis of British electronic music from Dr Who to Pink Floyd. Matt’s 2010 short film, The Mystery of Flying Kicks, was made entirely from contributions of imagery and phone messagebank stories from the global online public. It was in official selection at the 2010 SXSW Festival and won Best Short Documentary at the 2010 Melbourne Int'l Film Festival. Matt’s first feature-length documentary, Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, premiered in the World Cinema Documentary competition at Sundance 2011, and was recently selected in the 40th New Directors/New Films at the MOMA and Lincoln Center New York. Matt has just completed Stunt Love, a bio-pic about Australian silent film director J.P McGowan and his pioneering work creating daredevil action films in early Hollywood. Stunt Love premiered at MOMA New York in 2011.
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Sophie Hyde
Sophie is a director and producer who makes provocative and intimate drama and documentary work. Her documentaries include Bittersweet Freedom, Ok, Let's Talk About Me, Beyond Beliefs (winner of IQ One World Award 2009), and Stunt Love (Executive Producer). Her short films My Last Ten Hours with You, Elephantiasis and Necessary Games have won numerous awards including Best Short Film at the Sydney Mardi Gras, Audience Choice Award at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Best Experimental Short at the 2009 Melbourne Film Festival, the ATOM awards
2009 and the Brooklyn Int'l Film Festival 2010, Best Work at the Reeldance Awards 2010 and Best Director at the World of Women Film Festival. In 2010, Sophie produced Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, which premiered at Sundance 2011 and has so far signed theatrical deals in the US, Canada and Australia. She also produced and co-directed the feature documentary Life in Movement
about choreographer Tanja Liedtke which recently won the Foxtel
Australian Documentary Prize at Sydney Film Festival and will hit
cinemas in Australia later this year. Sophie is in pre-production on a
feature drama 52 Tuesdays as director and producer, which will begin shooting in 2011 and continue for 52 weeks.
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Rebecca Summerton
Rebecca Summerton is an Adelaide based producer whose credits include the documentaries Kumarangk 5214 (2001), Ok Lets Talk About Me (2005), It’s No Circus in Cambodia (2007) & Casualties of War (2008). She also produced the multi award winning short drama My Last Ten Hours With You (2006). In 2007 she was the recipient of the SASA Emerging Producer Award. Rebecca also has many years experience working in production offices and on set as an assistant director.
For the last three years Rebecca worked as the Program Manager at the SAFC where she was instrumental in establishing their FilmLab program - a low budget feature initiative, innovative for its risk-taking approach to financing films without market attachment and its focus on teams rather than projects. The first film to be produced through FilmLab, Shut up Little Man!, premiered at Sundance 2011 and has signed theatrical deals in the USA, Canada and Australia.
Rebecca recently joined Closer Productions to develop and produce their slate.
Matthew Cormack
Matthew Cormack has collaborated with Closer Productions for over 4
years and now looks after sales, distribution and associated delivery for
Closer Productions content. He is also a writer, his first feature is 52 Tuesdays,
a film set and shot every Tuesday over the course of a year,
is currently in production. Matthew has a background in theatre and has performed
and written works for the stage, his last work being Brothers in a
Bathtub, for Brink Productions’ Gorge ’09 season and wrote Closer's award-winning short film, My Last Ten Hours With You.
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Raynor Pettge
Raynor Pettge has worked for over seven years as editor, designer, and visual effects creator. Cutting his teeth on TVCs and corporate films, Raynor has since provided effects and motion graphics for a number of visually rich documentary productions including What The Future Sounded Like, Connected by Light, The Mystery of Flying Kicks, as well as TV series such as SBS' Risking It All and mY Generation. He has also worked as a compositor on the People's Republic of Animation's Oscar-shortlisted short film The Cat Piano. Most recently Raynor was motion graphics creator on the feature documentary Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure and the short documentary
Stunt Love.
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Corinna McLaine
Corinna is a dedicated producer/coordinator having worked in the arts in various capacities including project producing, production and program coordination, stage management, graphics and photography, props creation and scenic art. Companies worked for include State Theatre Company of SA, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Fringe, Vitalstatistix Theatre Company, Brink Theatre Company, Company B, Arts Projects Australia, Windmill, bluebottle, Ladykillers among others. Corinna has worked on many events and festivals in Adelaide, Melbourne and England.
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