Mason Shefa is 17 years old and resides in Los Angeles, California. He has been making movies for 11 years. Currently a senior at Oakwood Secondary School, Mason plans to continue making films in college.

Shefa shoots, directs and edits experimental, narrative, and music videos. His films have been recognized with top honors from the National Foundation for Advance ...ment in the Arts, University of Southern California’s L.A. Student Film Institute, the Danville International Children’s Film Festival, L.A.’s FilmFest 43, the Harvard-Westlake Film Festival, The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the South Bay Student Video Festival, and the Spotlight The Arts festival in Calabasas, CA just to name a few.

They have also been selected for screening at London's Raindance Film Festival, the Skip City International D-Cinema Festival in Japan, the Los Angeles Film Festival, Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, the Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festivals, the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (USA), the Iowa City Experimental Film Festival (ICE), and many more.

Shefa is currently working in collaboration with UK-based Outlier Records to provide visual elements for the releases of several of their artists.

Shefa's work has received honors and praise from some of Hollywood's biggest names including Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks and director Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, JFK, W.), Golden Globe winning director Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air), and writer/director Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Borat, Curb Your Enthusiasm), among others.

For more information, check out Mason's YouTube page here: youtube.com/​user/​KeyFilmation
To join the International Experimental Film Group on YouTube, of which Mason is a member: youtube.com/​group/​intexpfilm