Tom Cowan (director)

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. 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 Woman