Sophie Hyde

Closer Productions is a creative partnership between Sophie Hyde and Bryan Mason. Sophie Hyde is one half of the Closer Productions partnership. She has worked as a director and producer of documentaries, dance films, music clips, fashion and theatre. As a video artist she has created work for many dance and text-based performances. Sophie also works with arts organisations to document the stories and experiences of young people and different communities. Sophie wrote, directed and produced Closer’s documentary “Ok, Let’s Talk About Me” and was producer and co-director on a series of documentaries about young people on an arts project in Adelaide’s Northern suburbs. Sophie is the director of the short drama “My Last Ten Hours With You,” which won Best Direction, Best Drama and Best Film awards at the SA Short Screen Awards, Best Film at Mardi Gras and Melbourne Queer film festival (and audience award) and has screened at many festivals around the world. She also co-directed “Beyond Beliefs”, a one-hour documentary about the relationship between Muslim and Non-Muslims in Australia. Bryan Mason is one half of the Closer Productions partnership. He is an award winning Director of Photography, Editor and Director. He works in documentary, drama, advertising, music video clips and dance and theatre installation. Bryan began by making skateboarding videos, with four acclaimed skateboarding films independently distributed. He has won numerous awards for his short film and music video work, including a host of Gold awards from the Australian Cinematographers Society (SA/WA/NT) in both drama and documentary cinematography. Bryan shot, edited and produced Closer’s documentary “Ok, Let’s Talk About Me” and shot and edited the short drama “My Last Ten Hours With You”. He recently directed, shot and edited a documentary about a trek along the Kokoda trail in PNG for Vox Ventures and co-directed, shot, and edited Closer’s documentary about the relationship between Muslim and Non-Muslim Australians, “Beyond Beliefs”.