Title of Proposal:
John 2 Josie
Category/Issue/Theme:
Human Interest

Synopsis:
What happens when you wake up one morning and decide to tell everyone the naked truth – your mother, your wife, your children, your brother, your sister, your friends and your work colleagues…that for the past fifty years you have been a woman trapped inside the body of a man?

And what happens if you are John Emery, eminent novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer. Art critic and reviewer, and the current Director of the Australian Literature Board?

This is a story of the power of truth…sometimes sad, sometimes painful and quite often very distressing…but in the end honest, uplifting and inspirational. This is no ordinary story about an ordinary man or woman…this is an extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman who was once a man.