Tom Zubrycki
This list shows all the titles currently on australianscreen that include Tom Zubrycki in a principal role. It is not a comprehensive filmography.
Visit the National Film and Sound Archive’s catalogue of oral history recordings done with Tom Zubrycki.
For further information and resources on these films, visit Tom Zubrycki’s website.
In a production role:
The Inner City Tape (1974) — producer, director
A collaborative community video made by Tom Zubrycki in conjunction with the Inner Sydney Resident Action Group. Through the eyes of its residents it tells the story of…
We Have To Live With It (1974) — director
A community video made by Tom Zubrycki and the residents of Balmain and Rozelle that documents concerns held by residents and local businesses about the impact of an…
Fig Street Fiasco (1974) — producer, director
A ‘process video’ that filmmaker Tom Zubrycki made in collaboration with inner-city Sydney residents, this documentary voices the concerns of residents whose houses are tagged for demolition to…
Collingwood Community School (1975) — director
This ‘process video’ made by Tom Zubrycki aspires to provide an insight into the day-to-day running of the Collingwood Community School and some of the issues involved for…
The Painters and Dockers Strike (1976) — director, producer
A video made by filmmakers Tom Zubrycki and Russ Hermann, in collaboration with members of the Federated Ship Painters And Dockers Union of Australia, covering the strike over…
Addison Road Drop-In (1977) — producer, director
A ‘process video’ by Tom Zubrycki that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville. Many of them…
Port Botany: A Planning Dilemma (1979) — producer, director
A documentary that examines the environmental and community impacts of the Botany Bay port development and the conflicts between the different parties involved.
Waterloo (1981) — producer, director
The film outlines the history of the redevelopment of the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. Residents are interviewed and archival footage is used to outline the history of change…
Kemira: Diary of a Strike (1984) — producer, director
The documentary follows what happened when Kemira Colliery, in Wollongong, NSW, retrenched two hundred miners in 1983. Thirty of the men stayed down the mine for two weeks…
Friends and Enemies (1987) — producer, director
Friends and Enemies follows the bitter fight between the Queensland Coalition Government and members of the Electrical Trades Union from the start of the Union’s strike to the…
Strangers in Paradise (1989) — producer, director
Set on the eve of Australia’s bicentennial celebrations, this observational documentary looks at Australian (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) culture through the eyes of a group of American and British…
Lord of the Bush (1990) — producer, director
The documentary is about Lord Alistair McAlpine, bon vivant, patron of the arts and author. After falling in love with the Broome region in Western Australia in the…
Bran Nue Dae (1991) — producer, director
This documentary by Tom Zubrycki traces the development and production of the successful stage musical Bran Nue Dae. The writer of the play, Jimmy Chi, talks about how…
Homelands: View from the Edge (1993) — director, producer, writer
This documentary by filmmaker Tom Zubrycki follows the Robles family – Carlos, Maria and their four daughters – who came to Melbourne as refugees from El Salvador in…
Billal (1996) — producer, director
Sixteen-year-old Lebanese-Australian Billal is struck by a car in the aftermath of fighting between Anglo–Australian and Lebanese youths on a state housing estate in south-west Sydney. Billal is…
Exile in Sarajevo (1997) — producer
An observational documentary as Australian filmmaker Tahir Cambis and Sarajevo local Alma Sahbaz record the last six months of the Bosnian War.
Whiteys Like Us (1999) — producer
The documentary observes a group of white Australians coming together to take part in an Aboriginal reconciliation study group. Across Australia, fifteen thousand such groups formed ‘Reconciliation Learning…
Stolen Generations (2000) — producer
A documentary using historical and interview footage to tell the story of three people removed as children from their families, who are now one of the many referred…
Making Venus (2002) — producer
Making Venus is a ‘making of’ documentary about the production of a low budget feature film. Initially, the documentary sets out to record the development, funding, production and…
Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002) — producer
A documentary about the career of Indigenous actor, dancer, and cultural delegate, David Gulpilil, using interview as well as archival footage.
Molly and Mobarak (2003) — director
Molly and Mobarak follows the emotional journey of Mobarak Tahiri, a young Hazara refugee from Afghanistan living on a Temporary Protection Visa, as he struggles to adjust to…
Temple of Dreams (2007) — producer, director
Fadi Rahman runs the self-funded ICRA Youth Centre, operating out of a converted Masonic Temple in the heart of Sydney’s Muslim community. When the Cronulla riots take place…
