Mike Rubbo Director/ Producer Feb 2006

Independent producer/director Mike Rubbo was born in Melbourne in 1938. After studying anthropology at Sydney University, (BA Hons) he went to Stanford (California) on Fulbright and Ford scholarships to study media. He was the only Australian up to that time to win both prestigious scholarships.

Graduating with a Stanford MA in the mid 60’s, he has developed a vigorous career as a filmmaker and teacher. His student film,1. The true Source of Knowledge, shot around the time Kennedy was killed, got him a place at the NFB in Montreal. That was in 1965.

For 25 years he worked at the National Film Board of Canada, directing over 40 documentaries including 2. ‘Sad Song of Yellow Skin’ (1970),3. ‘Waiting for Fidel’ (1974) and 4. ‘Solzhenitsyn’s Children’ (1979), 5. ‘Daisy; Story of a face Lift’ (1982),films regularly seen at the Sydney Film festival in the 1970s and 80s, and multiple prize winners. Sad Song won the British Flaherty award and a Canadian Ertrog.