Ganja Queen
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Ganja Queen is an Australia
n documentary film
about the arrest, trial, and imprisonment of Schapelle Corby
released in 2007. An expanded version titled Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth, was aired by the Nine Network
in Australia in June 2008. Ganja Queen was later aired on HBO in North and South America, before being released on DVD.
The film was produced by Janine Hosking
and Steve Hosking. Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth was later nominated for Most Outstanding Documentary or Documentary Series at the Logie Awards of 2009
.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about the arrest, trial, and imprisonment of Schapelle Corby
Schapelle Corby
Schapelle Leigh Corby is an Australian woman convicted of drug smuggling who is imprisoned in Indonesia.Corby is serving a 20-year sentence for the importation of of cannabis into Bali, Indonesia...
released in 2007. An expanded version titled Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth, was aired by the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
in Australia in June 2008. Ganja Queen was later aired on HBO in North and South America, before being released on DVD.
The film was produced by Janine Hosking
Janine Hosking
Janine Hosking is an Australian documentary film maker. 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:...
and Steve Hosking. Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth was later nominated for Most Outstanding Documentary or Documentary Series at the Logie Awards of 2009
Logie Awards of 2009
The 51st Annual TV WEEK Logie Awards was held on Sunday 3 May 2009 at the Crown Entertainment Complex in Melbourne, and televised on the Nine Network. The awards ceremony was hosted by Gretel Killeen and had over 1.6 million people watching the Logie Awards telecast. Performing on the night were...
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