Janine Hosking

Australian documentary film maker

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.

Other documentaries include:

  • 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 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]
  • The Lost Diggers of Fromelles (2013)
  • 35 Letters (2014)
  • Lebanese Beauty Queens (2018)
  • The Eulogy (2018, about pianist Geoffrey Tozer)
  • Knowing the Score (2023, about conductor Simone Young)

References

  1. ^ "Hosking, Janine". Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  2. ^ "My Khmer Heart". Sunday. Nine Network. 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). 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.

External links

  • Janine Hosking at IMDb
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