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Script-writer and researcher for television.

In addition to her work on Police State, for which was awarded an AFI Award for Best Telefeature, Frances Finnane has worked on Bodyline and Vietnam. In 2013, she was appointed the Director of Education Division for the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School.

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form y separately published work icon Lindy Chamberlain : The True Story ( dir. Mark Joffe ) Australia : Easy Tiger Productions , 2020 20716527 2020 series - publisher film/TV

'Lindy Chamberlain’s story has figured in Australia’s collective conscious since 1980, when a wild dog took her defenseless baby in a random horrific attack. But it quickly became much more than that. The intrigue of the mostly unknown and untamed outback, of parents – particularly mothers - not behaving to conventional expectations; ruthless media, self-serving politicians and cowboy police, and the “trial of the century” all combine to make this a universal story that still resonates today.'

Source: Screen Australia.

2020 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Direction in Nonfiction Television
2020 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Documentary or Factual Program
form y separately published work icon Police State ( dir. Chris Noonan ) Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Southern Star Entertainment , 1989 Z1937426 1989 single work film/TV crime

'Police State is the story of the development of corruption in the Queensland police force and body politic as revealed during the Royal Commission conducted by Tony Fitzgerald, QC in 1987/88. Police State opens with the dramatic early days of the Commission hearings and the evidence of Assistant Commissioner Graeme Parker. Parker was the first senior officer to admit his corruption and seek an indemnity from prosecution. His evidence exposed the testimony of earlier witnesses and implicated those at "the top and higher".'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive (http://www.australiantelevision.net/telemovies/1989.html). (Sighted: 3/5/2013)

1989 won Australian Film Institute Awards Best Telefeature
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