Janet Cole's early credits include the 1987 PBS series "We the People" and "The AIDS Show: Artists Involved With Death and Survival," for which she was associate producer. She produced several works by director Peter Adair, including ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE, which won the 1991 International Documentary Association Award for Distinguished Achievement and was invited to the Berlin and Sundance film festivals. Cole conceived, developed, and supervised production of the four-hour television series "Positive: Life With HIV" for the Independent Television Service (ITVS), which was broadcast on PBS stations in 1996. She also produced "Pink Triangle" with directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman for Channel 4 and HBO/Cinemax. In 1999 she produced another documentary about Nazi persecution of homosexuals, "Paragraph 175," also for Channel 4 and HBO/Cinemax.  Nominated for Achievement in Documentary Features 1998: REGRET TO INFORM - Producer (w. Barbara Sonneborn) 1 nomination