Winner: Jane Kokan

Jane Kokan was born in Victoria, Canada. She studied Economics at the University of British Colombia, and International Journalism at London's City University. In 1990 she worked in radio for IRN and BBC World Service on features centred around human rights and current affairs. She has reported from China, Africa and the former Eastern Bloc. From 1991 -1992 she contributed to the Sunday Times, and the Economist and its Foreign Report on North Africa, the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union.

In 1992 she began her television career, working for the Financial Times Television as a producer/reporter for their West of Moscow programme aired on Sky and SuperChannel. In 1995 she was the producer of For the Love of the Leader, a sixty minute documentary broadcast on Channel Four's Witness series, telling the story of Colonel Gadaffi's female bodyguards.

In December 1995 she was the director/ camerawoman of the Battle for Sanski Most, broadcast on Channel Four's Dispatches. This is a remarkable inside story of the last big battle of the Bosnian conflict. It was from this documentary that a re-edited submission was made for this year's Rory Peck Award.

Her work has been broadcast by many foreign and domestic broadcasters - including CBC, NHK and Channel Four. She continues to work through RDF Television London, as a producer/ reporter/ camerawoman.

Contact: RDF Television, St.John's Hall, 374 North End Road, London SW6 1LY, UK.
T: 44-171-385-9200 F: 44-171-385-3131 E-mail: rdf@dial.pipex.com

The other finalists:

 

Thomas Goltz was present as the Russian forces made their assault on Samashki, resulting in his remarkable video diary of the attack.	Shane Teehan, previously nominated for an Emmy and for the Amnesty Press Awards, submitted 'So Speak or Die', a piece on the beleaguered state of journalists in Algeria.	Hedley Trigge, winner of far too many awards to list here, is an Australian-born freelancer working out of Jordan.
Contact: Global Vision, The Global Center, 1600 Broadway - Suite 700, New York, NY10019, USA T: (212) 246-0202 F: (212) 246-2677	Contact Insight News Television, Battersea Studios, Thackeray Road, London SW8 3TW, UK. T: 44-171-738-8344 F: 44-171-498-3030 E-mail: 100407.1606@ compuserve.com	Contact: Po Box 2206, Amman, Jordan. Tel: 962-6-657948 F: 962-6-657948