Mitu Bhowmick Lange
Mitu Bhowmick Lange is an Indian-Australian filmmaker, film producer and founder-director of Mind Blowing Films, a film distribution company that focusses on distribution of local content to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. She is the founder and director of Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, a Victorian government funded annual film festival that started in 2010 and the Victorian Government came on board in 2012. She has also provided line production services for the Hindi films "Salaam Namaste" (2005), "Koi Aap Sa" (2005), "Chak De India" (2007), "Bachna Ae Haseeno" (2008), "Main Aurr Mrs Khanna" (2009 ) and "Love Aaj Kal" (2009). Lange was awarded Jill Robb Screen Leadership Award for 2017 from Film Victoria. Mitu Bhowmik was appointed as a board of member at WIFT Australia in Feb 2022. Mitu is also a board member at Film Vic Australia and the part of the committee for Natalie Miller Fellowship (NMF). Career. Lange spent six years in Mumbai directing TV shows for the news, fashion and entertainment industries. She produced a daily breakfast show that ran across the networks BBC World, Sony TV, Star Plus and Zee TV. She has produced several Hindi films, including "Salaam Namaste  (2005), Koi Aap Sa" (2005), "Chak De India" (2007), "Bachna Ae Haseeno" (2008), "Main Aurr Mrs Khanna" (2009) and "Love Aaj Kal" (2009). She founded Mind Blowing Films in 2009, which releases and distributes Indian films in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. In 2010, she launched the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, a film festival showcasing Indian cinema to Australian audiences. Lange produced "Spice Girls of India" (2013), which was screened at the London Feminist Film Festival. In 2016, she co-produced "Raising the Bar", an Indo-Australian documentary film about six youths with Down syndrome with Australian non-profit  e.motion21. She also curates Australian and NZ films for various festivals in India. In November 2019, Lange designed and curated the Australia Focus at the 24th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival. Personal life. She was born and brought up in Delhi, India. She moved to Melbourne in 2002 after her marriage to Roy Lange, son of former Prime Minister of New Zealand, David Lange, and has a daughter. Awards. In December 2017, she received the Jill Robb Screen Leadership Award from Film Victoria for outstanding leadership, mentorship and service to the Screen Industry in Australia. She was also  awarded Indywood Carnival's Most Popular Indian Film Festival Abroad in 2017. Mitu was listed as one of the 10 Indian Origin Women Making a Difference in Australia by The Australia Today in 2022.