15 years – 15 stories

When Tamara Dawit joined APostLab in 2019, she was transitioning from documentary filmmaking into fiction. What she found in the workshop was more than technical know-how; it was a shift in mindset. As a woman of colour producing African content, Tamara sought the tools to navigate post-production confidently and bridge the gap between creative vision and technical execution.

Her APostLab experience has since influenced how she structures every project, bringing post supervisors on early, planning with precision, and mentoring a new generation of producers through her training work with EAVE and regional programs in East Africa.

“APostLab filled a knowledge gap that no other lab was addressing. Other labs rarely touch the technical side.”

Read Tamara’s full interview here.

Zalee attended the EP2C workshop (now APostLab) in 2016, a turning point that redefined his career and helped shape the future of post-production in Malaysia.

At the time, he had just finished editing Redha, the first Malay film to represent Malaysia for the Oscars. During the workshop in Halle, Germany, Zalee realized that what he had been doing all along was, in fact, post supervision — and that the role could exist as a dedicated profession in its own right.

“After EP2C, I decided to officially take on post supervision full-time.”

Since then, Zalee has become one of Malaysia’s leading post supervisors, a lecturer across four universities, and the president of MyPost, the national association for post-production professionals. He has been instrumental in professionalizing the field, advocating for fair pay, structured workflows, and the recognition that every film should include a post supervisor.

“When you have a post supervisor, you (The Producer) can actually sleep at night, that’s our job.”

Read Zalee’s full interview here

Olha Matat joined APostLab’s Workshop 14 in Ljubljana with her project TEURA, a period story with complex post-production needs. During the workshop, guidance from tutors like Niko, Antoine, and Roshi encouraged us to go deeper in unveiling the personal path of Sofia Yablonska, which is very relevant and reflects the modern times feelings and challenges of Ukrainian women, who had to move out of Ukraine because of the Russian invasion.

“APostLab completely changed our project—it became brighter, more international, and more ambitious.”

Since then, Teura has grown into a major international co-production between Ukraine, France, Morocco, and potentially Germany. Beyond project development, Olha emphasizes learning the full post-production process, budgeting, and collaboration with post supervisors — knowledge she now applies across her producing work.

“Even if your project is still in early development, APostLab gives you the chance to look at it from a new angle.”

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Gabi Basalici first joined the APostLab annual workshop in Luxembourg to deepen his understanding of post-production after transitioning from editing to post supervision. Encouraged by a colleague who had attended a previous edition, he later continued with the APostLab Mentorship Program, an experience he describes as the perfect complement to the workshop.

“The mentorship was directly applied to my project, what I learned there changed how I work with producers and co-producers.”

Through the mentorship, Gabi worked on Dinți de lapte (Milk Teeth), a project that went on to premiere at the Venice Film Festival and screen at Toronto, with APostLab proudly credited. Balancing his dual career as both editor and post supervisor, Gabi now brings together technical precision and creative collaboration across his projects.

“As a film editor, you’re quite isolated. Post supervising opened up a whole new world of networking and communication for me.”

Read Gabi’s full interview here