Dr Steve Thomas is an independent documentary maker and Honorary Fellow (previously Senior Lecturer) at the VCA Film School, Melbourne University.
His 2015 feature documentary, Freedom Stories, completed a trilogy of films about asylum seekers (www.freedomstoriesproject.com), along with Hope (2007) and Welcome to Woomera (2004). Freedom Stories premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and was a finalist in the Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary. Hope won the ATOM Award for Best Social/Political Documentary and was a finalist in the Australian Human Rights Awards and ADG Awards.
His earlier films include Black Man’s Houses (1992) and Harold, multi-award winning ABC TV documentaries examining black-white relations in Australia. He won the AFI Award for Best TV Documentary with his exploration of multiculturalism in The Hillmen – A Soccer Fable (1996) and a UNAA Media Peace Award for Least Said, Soonest Mended (2004), his twin sister’s adoption story.