Tom Cowan (director) explained

Tom Cowan
Birth Date:	31 October 1942
Birth Place:	Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Film director
Yearsactive:	1964-present

Tom Cowan (born 31 October 1942) is an Australian filmmaker.

Career

He started as a trainee at the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the joined the Commonwealth Film Unit. He left it in 1968 to work as a freelance cameraman and moved into feature films.^{[1] [2]} His 1972 film The Office Picnic was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.^[3]

Select filmography

• The Dancing Girls (1964) - documentary - DOP
• Helena in Sydney (1967) - documentary - short
• This Year Jerusalem (1969) - documentary - DOP, director
• Samskara (1969) - DOP
• Trouble in Molopolis (1970) - DOP
• Mogador (1970) - DOP (film appears to never have screened publicly)
• Australia Felix (1970) - short - director
• Story of a House (1970) - educational short
• Down Under (1971) - DOP
• Bonjour Balwyn (1971) - DOP
• The Office Picnic (1972) - director, writer, producer
• Promised Woman (1975) - director, writer, DOP
• Wild Wind (1975) - director
• Pure S (1975) - DOP
• The Love Letters from Teralba Road (1977) - DOP
• Journey Among Women (1977) - director
• Third Person Plural (1978) - DOP
• Mouth to Mouth (1978)
• Dimboola (1979) - DOP
• Sweet Dreamers (1981) - director
• Winter of Our Dreams (1981) - DOP
• Dead Easy (1982) - DOP
• One Night Stand (1984) - DOP
• Emma's War (1986) - DOP
• Antarctica (1991) (documentary) - DOP
• Backsliding (1992) - DOP
• Africa's Elephant Kingdom (1998) (documentary) - DOP
• Orange Love Story (2004) - director

Unmade films

• Roche (1974) - proposed follow up to Promised Woman^[4]

External links

• • Tom Cowan at Melbourne Independent Filmmakers
• Reema Moudgil, 'Tom Cowan: Moment Of Truth', Unboxed Writers, 28 July 2011
• Tom Cowan's blog

Notes and References

1. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p266
2. David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p181-183
3. Web site: 8th Moscow International Film Festival (1973) . 2013-01-03 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194922/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1973 . 2013-01-16 .
4. Graham Shirley, "Promised Woman", Cinema Papers, July 1974 p204-206