Emma-Kate Croghan

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Emma-Kate Croghan is an Australian director and writer born in Adelaide, South Australia on Australia Day (26 January) 1972.

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She is the daughter of Kate Croghan. She has been nominated for two AFI awards - Best Original Screenplay for Love and Other Catastrophes (1996) and Bronze Horse for Strange Planet (1999). [1]

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