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Stanley Hawes Award winner announced

Tom Zubrycki Director Tom Zubrycki has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Stanley Hawes award for his outstanding contribution to the documentary sector in Australia.

Zubrycki will be presented with the award at the opening night function of the Australian International Documentary Conference next week in Adelaide, where he will also deliver the inaugural address.Zubrycki’s recent films include Temple of Dreams, about a group of young Muslim Australians stuggling to keep open a youth centre in Sydney’s west; Molly & Mobarak, about a relationship between a young Afghani refugee and a country school teacher; The Diplomat (AFI’s for Best Documentary and Best Direction, 2000), about former exiled East Timorese leader, Jose Ramos-Horta; and his latest The Hungry Tide (in production), about the impact of climate change on the Pacific nation of Kiribati.

The award was established in 1997 to honour Stanley Hawes as first Producer-in-Chief of the Australian National Film Board and Commonwealth Film Unit.

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