Tom Cowan
Tom Cowan (born 31 October 1942) is an Australian filmmaker.
Tom Cowan
- Name
- Tom Cowan
- Born
- 31 October 1942
- Birthplace
- Victoria, Australia
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- Australia
- Honours
- Sitges Film Festival Best cinematography
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• Name — Tom Cowan • Born — 31 October 1942 • Birthplace — Victoria, Australia • Occupation — Film director • Years Active — 1964-present Tom Cowan (born 31 October 1942) is an Australian filmmaker.
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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. His 1972 film The Office Picnic was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.
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• 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
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