Trishna and Krishna doco wins award

Documentary special Trishna & Krishna: The Quest for Separate Lives has won Best Medical Science Program’ at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival.

The 2010 doco, which has already won a Logie Award for Outstanding Factual, followed the miraculous separation of conjoined twins, Bangladeshi girls Trishna and Krishna at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital.

The WTFN Entertainment production screened on the PBS network in the US earlier this year.

It was recently awarded at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival in Denver, which also awarded SBS doco Immortal.

The two girls will celebrate their sixth birthday in December.