Joe Skrzynski has had a long engagement with various aspects of the Australian film and television industries.
He was an investor in George Miller's first film, Violence in the Cinema, arranged the funding for My Brilliant Career, (that launched the careers of Sam Neill, Judy Davis and Gillian Armstrong) as well as the funding for Cathy's Child (Bryan Brown), Eden's Lost ( Neil Armfield) and High Tide ( Judy Davis, Gillian Armstrong)
In Documentaries, he has been the Executive Producer on The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe, Rosemary's Way, and Welcome to Yiddishland.
He was the Director of the Australian Film Commission when it succeeded in vastly increasing the funding available for Australian films in the early 1980's, enabling a ten fold increase in the value of Film and television production as well as establishing the Womens and the Indigenous Film Funds
Subsequently he was appointed by the Commonwealth Government to chair the Australian Film Television and Radio School and SBS TV and Radio.
In his business career, Investment funds managed by him controlled Austar, the regional Pay Television service, now owned by Foxtel.
