Tom Zubrycki

[9] The technical limitations of the portapak video tape analog recording system, plus his desire to reach wider audiences led Zubrycki to switch to 16mm film.

[17] Zubrycki claimed that he was forced to re-write history in accordance with the wishes of key ACTU officials who wanted to de-emphasize direct industrial action as a way of improving wages and conditions.

[21] Margaret Smith (1993) reviewing the film in Cinema Papers comments on "its compelling images, empathetic characters, multi-layered storyline and sheer force of its narrative".

[25] Zubrycki's next film was The Diplomat (2000), about the former exiled East Timor leader Jose Ramos-Horta and the final two years of his 25-year campaign to secure his homeland's independence.

This observational documentary charts the unfolding relationship between a young Hazara man fleeing the Taliban who has been granted a temporary protection visa, and the daughter of one of his English teachers.

Like his earlier film Billal, the focus was on Lebanese Muslims in the suburbs of south West Sydney, young people whose identity is split between a war-torn homeland and contemporary Australia.

Suzie Khamis (2004) notes, "These films prove a powerful counterpoint to a wider cultural tendency: to see Australian Lebanese Muslims though a narrow and detrimental prism".

[31] In 2011, Zubrycki completed The Hungry Tide, a personal story about the impact of climate change on the small Pacific nation of Kiribati, which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and screened in competition at IDFA.

[32][33] Shweta Kishore (2012) reviewing the film in Metro Magazine comments, "In The Hungry Tide, Tom Zubrycki peels away levels of obfuscation to reveal an urgent story of people facing the terror of climate change on their doorstep".