Steve Thomas

Stories of freedom: A reflexive account of collaboration and ethics in documentary filmmaking

Stephen Thomas

Book Chapter  |  2019

This chapter is concerned with the ethics of making films with and about real people in which they will be publicly and openly ide..

Exposed on Screen: Real People’s Stories, Unscripted TV and the Virtues of Collaborative Documentary Filmmaking

Stephen Thomas

Journal article  |  2019  |  Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media

With growing concern about fake news, the ubiquity of social media and the multiplicity of information in a connected world, the e..

Against the Grain: The documentary sensibility of Sue Brooks' fiction filmmaking

Stephen Thomas

Journal article  |  2018  |  Metro Magazine

Fiction films are conventionally seen as fanciful flights from the hard truths and banal miscellanea of real life but - as documen..

Reflexivity, collaboration and ethical documentary filmmaking: a practice led approach

Stephen Thomas

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2017

This creative practice research concerns reflexivity, collaboration and ethics in authored documentary filmmaking—with a focus on ..

Freedom Stories - Shorts

S THOMAS

Recorded or Rendered Work - Film, Video  |  2016

Series of six short documentary films

Freedom Stories

S THOMAS

Recorded or Rendered Work - Film, Video  |  2015

Writer, Director, Co-Producer, Narrator

Freedom Stories: what I've learned from filming Australia's asylum seekers

S THOMAS

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2015

As an independent documentary maker, my journey through asylum seeker terrain began in 2002, when I was researching a documentary ..

Wolfpack and the ethics of documentary making

S THOMAS

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2015

American documentary filmmaker Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack tells the story of the Angulo brothers, who grew up in a New York ho..

Collaboration and ethics in documentary filmmaking – a case study

Steve Thomas

Journal article  |  2012  |  New Review of Film and Television Studies

Upfront Filmmaking: The Ethics of Documentary Relationships

S THOMAS

Journal article  |  2012  |  Metro