Michael Rubbo

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Michael Dattilo Rubbo (born 31 December 1938) is an Australian filmmaker who has written and directed over 50 films in documentary and fiction.

Michael studied anthropology at Sydney University, and then travelled on a Fulbright scholarship to study film at Stanford University, California where he got his MA in Communication Arts.

Then, for 20 years he worked as a documentary film director at National Film Board of Canada, taking time off to teach between films. He has directed over 40 documentaries, winning many international prizes. His best known documentaries are Sad Song Of Yellow Skin, Waiting for Fidel, Daisy, Solzhenitsyn's Children, Margaret Atwood: Once in August (1984) and Much Ado About Something.

His films have been widely shown on TV, and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) New York and film schools around the world.

He has been visiting lecturer at New York University (NYU), UCLA, Stanford. Univ. of Florida with longer teaching periods at Harvard University and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). In 1973, he helped found Film Australia, an independent organization devoted to the promotion of Australian cinema.

Michael has also directed and written four children’s feature films including The Peanut Butter Solution (1985), Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988), and the Emmy award winning Vincent and Me. More recently he spent some time as the Head of Documentaries, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Television, encouraging Verite and instigating the very popular Race Around the World series.