Tom Cowan (director)

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

Tom Cowan
Born	(1942-10-31) 31 October 1942 (age 82) Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1964-present

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]