Oakley Kwon is an award winning actor, policy maker and innovator. She is also a versatile and dynamic board executive, producer and diversity advocate. Oakley was a recipient of the Equity Ensemble Award for her role in Hungry Ghosts (Matchbox Pictures/NBCU). She is the President of the QLD Community Television Association Inc, head of Loom Films and Chief Executive of Asian Food and Film.

Mitu Bhowmick Lange is the Director & Founder of Mind Blowing Films. MBF is the leading distributor of Indian films in Australia , NZ and Fiji. Over the last ten years MBF have contributed over 100M to the Australian Box office and counting. It is also credited to have successfully integrated Indian cinema to the mainstream exhibitors. She is also the Director of Mind Blowing World, which is an independent film distribution company that specialises in the distribution of quality Australian content to Australian, New Zealand and Fiji audiences. 

Mitu Bhowmick Lange is one of the most renowned names contributing to the global outreach of Indian cinema in the past decade. She is the Festival Director of the Indian Film Festival - Bollywood and Beyond and the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne , the biggest annual celebration for Indian cinema outside India.

Mitu began her career in Bombay where she directed several documentaries and TV shows including entertainment, news and fashion magazine programs and a daily breakfast show for leading channels including BBC World, Star Plus, Zee TV and Sony TV. Since living in Australia, Mitu has produced and introduced several Indian productions to Australia including blockbusters like Salaam Namaste , Chak de India and bacon Aye Haseeno .

She also directed and produced the film Spice Girls of India, which was screened at the London Feminist Film Festival. Mitu also sits on the jury of the same film festival . Mitu produced the multi-award-winning documentary, Raising the Bar directed by renowned Indian filmmaker, Onir. In 2017, Mitu received the Jill Robb Award from Film Victoria recognising her achievements, leadership and mentorship of other women from the sector. 

Mitu also curates Australian & NZ films for various International film festivals of Indian. In 2018 she designed and curated an Australian film showcase at the 2018 Kolkata International Film Festival. The showcase focused on 100 years of Australian Cinema with a poster exhibition and film screeningsand had over 135,000 attendees. 

In 2018, Mitu was appointed to the Board of Film Victoria, becoming the first Indian in Australia to be offered this prestigious role. 

She is now producing a anthology of four short films to be directed by four of India’s biggest directors – Onir, Rima Das , Imtiaz Ali and Kabir Khan , based on the diverse migrant experiences called – My Melbourne.

Mitu is a passionate advocate of Equality and Inclusivity especially in Arts and Cinema, as the centre of her world, her daughter is a little girl living with Down Syndrome . She believes that the power of diverse stories that can slowly but surely impact the world and bring about positive change.

Yolandi (NSW JP #254106) is a Film and TV Producer, TV-host and industry all-rounder and has been in showbiz since the turn of the century.

She has produced three feature films, a two-part documentary series, two TV series, and hundreds of shorter format stories, some winning festival awards. Her experience in front of the cameras and as MC is also vast.

She joined WIFT (Women in film & Television) Australia and is currently the Secretary, NSW Board Member and Chair of their Virtual Arm. She also started and ran Cause Film Festival for three years before stepping down as Festival Director to focus on her projects. On the side she is also the Editor in Chief for Film Central Magazine. For her work in the community, Yolandi was nominated Australian of the Year in 2015.

Stephanie Davis is a producer based in Perth, Western Australia. After completing FTI’s Producer’s course in 2014, she worked as a production manager on numerous productions including ‘Lurking Woods’, ‘Tainted Getaway’, ‘Undiscovered Country’, and ‘Jadai: The Broome Brawler’.

Stephanie also produced the Screenwest Indigenous funded Elevate 70 initiative short film, ‘Spirit of Happiness’, and produced a number of short films including ‘Aliens’, ‘Money’, ‘Broken Butterfly’,’Whet’ and the Screenwest Generate funded short film, ‘Antecedents’. The 2018 feature film, ‘Toxic Obsession’, was Stephanie’s first opportunity to produce an independent feature film. She was also shortlisted for the Universal Fast Pitch/Screenwest initiative with the feature film concept, ‘Divine Intervention’. Along with her film work based around producing, Stephanie started working on ‘A Maze in Grazelands’ in 2019 which is her first event credit. She also won a place in the 2021 Out There Development Initiative with Glen Wallis for the LGBTQIA+ web series “Drag Alien Wrestling”.

Stephanie is an independent filmmaker and runs a production company called Somedae Pictures, she also runs mentoring programmes for emerging film crew wanting mentoring in their field on set.  Stephanie was given the opportunity through Wift’s Mentor Her, to be mentored by Suzanne Worner’s from Revelation Film Festival in 2020 as she was keen to learn more about film festivals. She continues to push boundaries and also completed the Contact Officer Training course run by Wift WA, and volunteers her time as a committee member for WIFT WA.

Maya is a senior strategic marketing consultant with a demonstrated history of developing high performance marketing strategies for the live events and entertainment industries.

Prior to moving to London for three years where she worked for top production companies Scott Free Films and Lookout Point, she worked as a freelance producer and held various senior roles on screen productions in Western Australia.

She is currently taking a break from producing with a role in the tech and innovation space as a Marketing and Engagement Consultant at Curtin University and Marketing Director of West Tech Fest.

Amanda was appointed to the WIFT Australia Board in January 2023 having moved home to Australia after 14 years working in the entertainment industry in the US.

While in Los Angeles, she most recently worked as the Director of U.S Production for Ausfilm with prior roles including Production Executive for AirBud Entertainment and Manager for the Operations Support Team at the Academy Awards.

In 2023, Amanda co-founded production company Undertow Content, and currently holds the role of lead producer and co-CEO.

Dianna La Grassa is currently Bus Stop Film’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) and in-house Producer. As an MBA graduate, she has over 10 years of experience in the education sector as well as being a NIDA trained actress and emerging Film Producer/Director. She has produced over 30 short films including the award winning Groundhog Night, What Was It Like? and This is News in Radio.