Loani Arman is a Screen Executive and Screenwriter with over 20 years of experience in the Australian screen industry. As the Scripted Commissioning Editor for SBS, Loani worked across the development and production of the network's original scripted programming. Her credits include 'Safe Home', 'Erotic Stories', 'While the Men Are Away', 'Swift Street', and 'Four Years Later'. Loani was also the Executive Producer across SBS’ short-form drama and features slate, including the AACTA Award-winning series 'Latecomers', as well as 'Appetite' and the upcoming 'Moonbird', which premiered at Canneseries and Series Mania, respectively.

Prior to SBS, Loani was a Content Director at Screen Queensland, where she led development programmes and talent initiatives. She has also been a Drama Associate for Showtime Australia, working across nearly 60 hours of original drama commissions, including 'Cloudstreet', 'Tangle', and 'Satisfaction'.

As a Writer/Director, Loani’s documentary series 'My Body Says' was commissioned by ABC in 2020 and won the AIDC Best Short Form Award that year. In 2019, Loani won the AACTA Pitch Competition with her short film 'Our Greatest Escape', and was selected for Australians in Film’s ‘Charlie’s Lab’ in Los Angeles to develop her scripted series 'The Mother Load'. Loani is a frequent contributor to writers' rooms with some of Australia’s leading production companies and is currently developing an adaptation of a popular supernatural thriller/teen horror title, as well as an eight-part drama series.

Proud of her Indonesian heritage, Loani is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the screen sector and recently completed a term as Co-Chair of the Screen Diversity Inclusion Network (SDIN).