Janine Hosking

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Janine Hosking
OccupationDocumentary filmmaker

Janine Hosking is an Australian documentary film maker.[1] She won a Walkley Award in 1997 for a Seven Network television report titled Tjandamurra, the story of Tjandamurra O'Shane.

Hosking has made several other well received documentaries including:

  • My Khmer Heart. Ikandy Films (2001) - story of an Australian nurse and her work in an orphanage outside Phnom Penh.[2]
  • Mademoiselle and the Doctor. Ikandy Films (2004) - story of the suicide of 80-year-old French-Australian woman Lisette Nigot and euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke.[3] A scene from the film showing the use of a suicide bag was controversially edited from the ABC screening by Compass presenter Geraldine Doogue[4] and was the subject of a separate report on Media Watch.[5]
  • With This Ring (2005) - aired on ABC Television's Australian Story[6]
  • Ganja Queen (2007) - about the arrest, trial, and imprisonment of Schapelle Corby
  • I'm Not Dead Yet (2011) - about Australian country music legend Chad Morgan[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Hosking, Janine". Australian Women Biographical Entry. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
  2. ^ "My Khmer Heart". Sunday. 10 March 2002. Archived from the original on 7 September 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
  3. ^ Maddox, Garry (6 May 2004). "Godzilla versus the film buffs". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 10 August 2007.
  4. ^ Barns, Greg (15 November 2005). "The hypocrisy of the media". The National Forum (onlineopinion.com.au). Retrieved 22 December 2008.
  5. ^ "Response to Media Watch from Janine Hosking" (PDF). ABC Media Watch. 10 June 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
  6. ^ "My Favourite Australian Story - With This Ring". Australian Story - (transcript). 1 February 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
  7. ^ Elliott, Tim (3 June 2011). "Alive and picking". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 1 June 2013.


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