Will McCallum is Naarm/Melbourne-based documentary producer and director that has spent much of his career producing video from a base in China and then Hong Kong. He produced and directed the series - Pioneers: ASEAN Women of 2018 for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which won the 2018 Asia Public Affairs Awards. He studied politics and Chinese at the University of Melbourne, and then earned a Masters degree in journalism from the University of Hong Kong. He is now in the final year of a PhD at the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. Waŋgany Mala is his first feature-length documentary.