Mawson began his career in the early 2000s as an actor and later attracted acclaim for his filmmaking work, most notably as director of the short film
Pyotr495, for which he won the
Emerging Artist Award at the 2016
Inside Out Film and Video Festival and received a
Canadian Screen Award nomination at the
7th Canadian Screen Awards for Best Direction in a Web Program or Series. As an actor, he had a starring role in
Gore, Quebec, as well as small parts in the films
X2,
Freddy vs. Jason,
Poison Ivy: The Secret Society and
Nurse 3D, and the television series
Sk8,
Cold Squad,
The Evidence,
Blade, and
The Strain. His feature film debut, tentatively titled
The Viridian, is in development and was selected for Inside Out's 2020 Finance Forum. == Personal life ==