Janine Hosking

Janine Hosking
Occupation	Documentary 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 (Fairfax Media). 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 (Fairfax Media). Archived from the original on 1 June 2013.