Book-to-film adaptations receive development funding from Screen Australia

2 August 2018 Books+Publishing

Three book-to-film adaptations feature among the projects receiving story development funding from Screen Australia.

The projects, and their producers, are:

A feature film adaptation of the novel, The Natural Way of Things (Charlotte Wood, A&U) by Katia Nizic and Emma Dockery of Generator Pictures) with Sue Maslin as executive producer on the project.
A hybrid live-action and animated feature film adaption, created by 10 leading Australian animators, of the children’s book Magic Beach (Alison Lester, A&U) produced by Robert Connolly and Liz Kearney of Arenamedia.
An action-adventure feature film adaptation of Finnish book Monster Nanny (Tuutikki Tolonen, Pasi Pitkanen & Annira Silver, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) produced by Ridley Scott of Scott Free Productions and Sylvia Wilczynski of Red Lamp Films.

Development funds ‘allow works to continue through the creative process, such as allowing the writer to work on further drafts, with the aim to get the title ready for production’.

This is the last slate of Story Development projects to receive funding under Screen Australia’s previous development guidelines which were replaced on 1 July 2018.

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the film rights to Charlotte Wood’s 2015 novel were first optioned by producers Katia Nizic and Emma Dockery in 2016.

To see the full descriptions of funded projects, click here.

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