Writing
Josephine Emery
Place of birth
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Known for
Writing
Credits
5 titles
Born in Cairns, Nth Queensland, Josephine was originally christened, ‘John’. Her early life was spent on a coconut plantation west of Lae, in PNG. The family moved to a back-blocks farm in South Australia. ‘John’ attended boarding school in Adelaide, worked in gold-mining, exploration, and desert construction and forestry before taking a degree and becoming a writer and university teacher. John’s early successes as a writer of gritty, real-life working men’s stories created opportunities for him to adapt them as screenplays: notably ‘Backroads’ for Philip Noyce, ‘Freedom’ for Scott Hicks, ‘Fever’ for Craig Lahiff. He revealed a talent for action and genre movies and marginalised characters…
Known for
4.7A policeman discovers a suitcase full of drug money while on duty, meanwhile his wife is having an affair with another man.
Fever
1988
6.0Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life -- blaming everyone for the fact that his dreams are not coming true.
Freedom
1982
A Nazi spy in wartime England realises that he's been discovered.
Labyrinth
1979
An office worker goes into the Gents’ and takes off his shirt and suit to reveal that he is...Super Jogger.
The Jogger
1980
4.2A married man meets a stunning brunette at an airport and has an affair with her. After a while though he wants to break it off but realises the woman will do anything to stay with him no matter who gets hurt.
Strangers
1991
Film credits
Behind the camera
4.7A policeman discovers a suitcase full of drug money while on duty, meanwhile his wife is having an affair with another man.
Fever
1988
6.0Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life -- blaming everyone for the fact that his dreams are not coming true.
Freedom
1982
A Nazi spy in wartime England realises that he's been discovered.
Labyrinth
1979
4.2A married man meets a stunning brunette at an airport and has an affair with her. After a while though he wants to break it off but realises the woman will do anything to stay with him no matter who gets hurt.
Strangers
1991