Janine Hosking

Janine Hosking is an Australian documentary film maker.^[1] She won a Walkley Award in 1997 for a Seven Network television report entitled 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. A scene from the film showing the use of a suicide bag was controversially edited from the ABC screening by Compass presenter Geraldine Doogue^[3] and was the subject of a separate report on Media Watch.^[4]

With This Ring (2005) - aired on ABC Television's Australian Story^[5]

Ganja Queen (2007) - about the arrest, trial, and imprisonment of Schapelle Corby

References

^ "Hosking, Janine". Australian Women Biographical Entry. http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2878b.htm. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
^ "My Khmer Heart". Sunday. 10 March 2002. http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/article_1004.asp?s=1. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
^ Greg Barns (15 November 2005). "The hypocrisy of the media". The National Forum (onlineopinion.com.au). http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=24. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
^ "Response to Media Watch from Janine Hosking". ABC Media Watch. 10 June 2005. http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/img/2005/ep15/janine_hosking.pdf. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
^ "My Favourite Australian Story - With This Ring". Australian Story - (transcript). Wednesday, 1 February 2006. http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2006/s1559728.htm. Retrieved 22 December 2008.