According to Deanne Weir, the new deputy chair of Screen Australia, Mason, ‘Brings strong and commercial experience of distribution. It will be great to have that perspective over the next five years, while there is such change in distribution models.’
In 2003 he settled into Channel 4 Corporation, and ‘Was involved in establishing a new Film Division, re-launching the Channel 4 Film Library and supervising the completion of production, sales and distribution of Film 4 titles,’ according to the release from the office of the federal Minister of the Arts, Tony Burke.