Janine Hosking is an Australian documentary film maker. She won a

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in 1997 for a

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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

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. *''Mademoiselle and the Doctor''. Ikandy Films (2004) – story of the suicide of 80-year-old French-Australian woman Lisette Nigot and

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advocate

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. A scene from the film showing the use of a

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was controversially edited from the ABC screening by ''

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'' presenter

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and was the subject of a separate report on '' Media Watch''. *''With this Ring'' (2005) – aired on ABC Television's ''

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'' *'' Ganja Queen'' (2007) – about the arrest, trial, and imprisonment of

Schapelle Corby Schapelle Leigh Corby (born 10 July 1977) is an Australian woman who was convicted of drug smuggling, smuggling cannabis into Indonesia. She spent nine years imprisoned on the Indonesian island of Bali in Kerobokan Prison. Since her arrest, Cor ...

*''I'm Not Dead Yet'' (2011) – about Australian country music legend

Chad Morgan Chadwick William Morgan (11 February 1933 – 1 January 2025) was an Australian country music singer and guitarist known for his vaudeville style of comic country and western and folk songs, his prominent teeth and goofy stage persona. In refe ...

*''The Lost Diggers of

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'' (2013) *''35 Letters'' (2014) *''Lebanese Beauty Queens'' (2018) *''The Eulogy'' (2018, about pianist

Geoffrey Tozer Geoffrey Peter Bede Hawkshaw Tozer (5 November 1954 – 21 August 2009) was an Australian classical pianist and composer. A child prodigy, he composed an opera at the age of eight and became the youngest recipient of a Churchill Fellowship award ...

) *''Knowing the Score'' (2023, about conductor

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) *''A Horse Named Winx'' (2024, about racehorse Winx)

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