Tyler Bern is Head of Content for Prime Video Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. He has been at Amazon for 5 years in this role for 3 years and oversees Amazon’s content strategy for Prime Video in ANZ. Prior to Amazon, Tyler was working in Dish Network’s Programming group across a number of verticals including sports and premium content. Tyler has a MBA from Northwestern University and is a native of Chicago, Illinois. Whilst at Amazon Prime Video, Tyler has been instrumental in commissioning fourteen Amazon Original programs in Australia, including The Test: A New Era for Australia’s Team, LOL: Last One Laughing AU with Rebel Wilson, AFL series Making Their Mark, Luxe Listings Sydney, Back to The Rafters, Deadloch, Class of 07, and The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.

Alex West has written, produced and directed over 40 factual and documentary series and specials for many TV networks, including BBC, C4, Five, ABC, SBS, National  Geographic, Discovery and Seven.

He began his career in the USA, while a Fulbright Scholar, before returning to the UK to work with BBC.

As an EP at Wall to Wall Media, he co-created the celebrity genealogy hit global series  ‘Who Do You Think You Are?

In Australia, he’s made many shows and specials including Ned Kelly Uncovered and Utopia Girls which was nominated for the 2013 NSW Premiers award for history. In 2011  Inside the Firestorm, the story of the Black Saturday Victorian bushfires,  won 3 AFI’s as best feature length documentary.

In 2012 Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us,  was nominated for the AACTA/AFI as Best Documentary Series and  the Prime Ministers prize for Australian History. Alex is a three time Logie nominee.

He has recently produced several high profile ABC doco series. The Art of Australia, and Bodyline: The Ultimate Test presented by writer and comedian Adam Zwar. Recent TV series  include ‘Making Australia Great’,  ‘Revolution School’ and ‘Monash & Me’. 

With Nicholas Brown, in 2020  he won the Emmy Award for  best nature film for ‘The Serengeti Rules.

He was appointed Head of Documentary at Screen Australia in July 2021.

Mandy has many years of experience working in the documentary community across genres, roles and platforms as a respected commissioner, exec producer, writer and filmmaker. She is the Global Head of Documentaries at Fremantle, responsible for developing and overseeing a slate of world class international films and high-end series for the global indie – one of the largest and most successful creators, producers and distributors of scripted and unscripted content in the world. Mandy ran the BBC’s pioneering feature doc strand Storyville, commissioning and overseeing acclaimed international feature docs. She brought her own vision to the much-loved strand, curating a slate of the most talked about documentaries onscreen, among them award winning Collective, Welcome to Chechnya, The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea and Locked In: Breaking the Silence. She extended Storyville’s breadth and diversity, while guiding exciting new talent into the industry. Prior to that Mandy was head of ABC Arts.

Tony Jackson has spent more than thirty years making television and documentaries, earning his first stripes at the BBC before becoming Head of Television at Lonely Planet and then Executive Producer/Writer/Director at Chemical Media. Tony has worked with international broadcasters and screen funding bodies in North America, Europe, the Middle East, China and Australia. He’s been twice nominated for a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism and is the winner of a Screen Producers Australia Award.

Santilla Chingaipe is a journalist, filmmaker and author, whose work explores colonialism, slavery, and post-colonial migration in Australia. Chingaipe’s latest documentary, Our African Roots, is streaming on SBS, and is based on her ongoing research on African convicts. She is a regular contributor to The Saturday Paper, and serves as a member of the Federal Government’s Advisory Group on Australia-Africa Relations. The recipient of several awards, she was recognised at the United Nations as one of the most influential people of African descent in the world in 2019. Chingaipe is the founder of Behind The Screens, an annual program supported by Film Victoria, aimed at increasing the representation of people historically excluded from the Australian film industry. She is based in Melbourne. 

Creative Producer/Director. Vassiliki Khonsari co-founder of iNK Stories, the New York City studio Fast Company calls an “innovation agent”–– known for creating and publishing genre defining, premium narrative games, films and immersive realities.

Alongside Navid Khonsari, who is known for the cinematic look and feel for iconic franchises such as Grand Theft Auto to Resident Evil, Max Payne, Alan Wake–– iNK Stories’ recent genre bending original titles 1979 Revolution, Fire Escape, Hero, Blindfold have garnered the industry’s top honors for converging rich documentary style storytelling with a distinctive artistic vision for worldwide commercial audiences. Notable awards include BAFTA finalist to wins at the Tribeca Film Festival, Lumiere Award, Facebook’s Game of the Year, Finalists for Best Game at Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (DICE), Game Awards, NY Game Critics, Telly Winner. 

Khonsari is a visual anthropologist and her documentary film work has screened at more than 75 film festivals around the world, on Netflix, Sundance Channel, ESPN and in more than seven languages. A PGA Women’s Impact Network’s Culture Shift contributor, Guild Of Future Architects Member, fellow and consultant for Sundance Institute New Frontier Story Lab, recipient of grant support from The Doris Duke Foundation, MADE IN NY Innovation Grant, French Government and Sundance’s IDP. Contributes to the intersection of social justice, technology and story as a mentor and lecturer in the US and internationally. Some include Phi Centre, UNESCO, Museum of Moving Images, Sheffield, Doha Forumin Qatar, UN, Produced By Conferences, Canadian Embassy in Ukraine, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Northwestern in Qatar, SXSW, FoST, CPH:Labs, Saul Zaentz Innovation Lab, AIDC, Rolling Stone Culture Council.