Biography: Janis Cole is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and artist with more than thirty years experience. Her feature documentary films include P4W: Prison for Women, which earned a Genie Award and Hookers on Davie, which won a Gold Plaque in Chicago. Other awards include the NFB’s Best Canadian Short Film Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and a Toronto Arts Award in Media Art. Her television writing has earned six Gemini nominations and a Writer’s Guild Top Ten Award. She writes for several Toronto publications, teaches at the Ontario College of Art & Design and is completing her Master of Fine Art in Documentary Media at Ryerson University. She has lived in Chatham Ontario, Vancouver and Toronto, and now makes her home in the Haliburton Highlands.