Thomas used to attend workshops at St Martins as a teenager in the 1990s before joining the organisation as their General Manager in 2021 and then becoming the Executive Director in 2025. During the time in-between, he worked for 8 years in film programming at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and prior to that held various marketing and communications positions at other organisations in the arts, publishing and community sectors.
As well as working at St Martins, Thomas continues to program films for festivals, and he is the current Artistic Director of the Children’s International Film Festival. He is also a freelance writer, specialising in film criticism and film education, the author of the secondary school textbook Film Analysis Handbook, published by Insight Publications, and is a three-time winner of the Ivan Hutchinson Award for Writing on Australian Film in the Australian Film Critics Association Writing Awards. Thomas is also a radio broadcaster who used to make regular appearances on ABC Radio Melbourne, ABC Radio National and Triple R 102.7FM, and still occasionally drops into Triple R to talk film on the Primal Screen program.
Get in touch: thomas@stmartinsyouth.com.au
