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Steve Thomas's documentary filmography as a writer/director includes:

• Black Man's Houses (1992, ABC TV) and Harold (1994, ABC TV), two 1-hour documentaries examining black-white history in Australia.
  Black Man's Houses won the Rouben Mamoulian Award at the Sydney Film Festival and the Erwin Rado Award at the Melbourne Film Festival. Harold was nominated for an AFI Award and both films won ATOM Awards for Best Social Issues Documentary.
• The Hillmen - A Soccer Fable (1996, SBS TV), about the misadventures of a junior soccer team and winner of the Australian Film Institute Award for Best TV Documentary of 1996.
• Least Said, Soonest Mended (2000, SBS TV), an adoption story about Steve's own family which won a United Nations Association Media Peace Award

In 2001 Steve produced Family Foibles, an award-winning, half-hour series of family stories for ABC TV told by emerging directors.

His most recent film, Welcome to Woomera (2004, ABC TV), explores Australia's famous 'Rocket Town', more recently infamous for its immigration detention centre.

Steve lectures in documentary at the Victorian College of the Arts Film & TV School in Melbourne.

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Sue Brooks directed the feature film Japanese Story.

Japanese Story has won 27 awards including 8 AFI awards in 2003 and a coveted FIPRESCI award. The gross box office for Australia was over 4.5 million dollars and it was sold to over 22 territories including Samuel Goldwyn jnr. for the United States.

Sue also directed the feature Road to Nhill. Road to Nhill had a very loyal, devoted audience who constantly responded to its apparent verisimilitude. It played in Australian cinemas for over nine months. It also won the prestigious Thessaloniki prize for best film and the Turin prize for best script.

Sue also directed a number of episodes of the popular ABC series Sea Change starring Sigrid Thornton and David Wenham. Sea Change became one of the top rating dramas for the year.

Sue has also directed the documentaries High Heels and Land of the Long Weekend for Film Australia. High Heels was a finalist in the Sydney Film Festival Dendy awards and Land of the Long Weekend was nominated for an AWGIE script prize. She has been a consultant director for Steve Thomas on Black Man's Houses, Least Said Soonest Mended and Family Foibles for the ABC.

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