Tom Murray

Tom Murray is an academic and media producer who has worked in documentary production for nearly 20 years as a writer, director, and producer. He is the winner of numerous awards and accolades for his film and television work and has been employed as a consultant by state film funding agencies, international media organisations, and in numerous educational contexts.

Tom has worked across a diverse slate of factual and documentary production for commercial and public broadcasters, and in his own multi-award winning and critically acclaimed documentaries for France 5, SBS TV and ABC TV.

Tom’s documentary for ABC-TV Dhakiyarr vs the King won the 2005 NSW Premier’s History Award, the 2004 Dendy Award for Best Film at the Sydney Film Festival and was selected for many international film festivals including the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and the Jakarta Film Festival. His 2008 film In My Father’s Country was selected for major international festivals including IDFA Amsterdam and won the 2008 Australian Directors Guild Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature. His film Love in Our Own Time was screened in 2014 at the Islands in the World Film Festival, and is distributed by Alexander Street Press and Kanopy.

In 2014 Tom was awarded the Australian Academy of Humanities Max Crawford Medal, the highest award in Australia for outstanding achievement and promise in Humanities research. He is a Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University. He is currently working on two feature documentary projects that have received development funding through Screen Australia and other agencies – The Skin of Others, a project about the life story of WW1 Indigenous soldier Douglas Grant; and My Queensland, a journey through the black history of Queensland from the perspective of an Indigenous former police officer.