Jeannine Baker

writer, director and researcher

phone: +61 (0)2 9564 0790
mobile: +61 (0) 421 345 568
email: jeannineb@optusnet.com.au
postal: 161a Victoria St Dulwich Hill NSW 2203

Jeannine Baker is a filmmaker, researcher, historian and curator specialising in Australian social history.. She has worked in the TV documentary, radio, print and museum fields. In 2001 Jeannine wrote and directed Our Drowned Town, a half hour documentary about the inundation of Adaminaby township by the Snowy Mountains Scheme, for SBS TV. She was the archival researcher on the Film Australia documentaries City of Dreams and Federation, and researcher and production manager on the oral history series Australian Biography VII. Jeannine has curated or researched a number of museum exhibitions, including the Australian Museum's Death and Body Art exhibitions, for which she also directed a series of short films. Jeannine has produced for Radio National's Verbatim series, and written for the Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens. Jeannine has a Master of Arts in Public History from UTS (2001).
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