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.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p266David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p181-183 His 1972 film The Office Picnic was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.
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 WomanGraham Shirley, "Promised Woman", Cinema Papers, July 1974 p204-206
References
External links
Tom Cowan at Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Reema Moudgil, 'Tom Cowan: Moment Of Truth', Unboxed Writers, 28 July 2011 Tom Cowan's blog