Revlover Films' Martha Coleman is producing. The feature has secured matched funding from eOne, who produced Knight's 'The Water Diviner'.
Fred Schepisi will host Stratton in a special in-conversation event at the Adelaide Film Festival this Saturday October 29.
In between film work last year, Knight wrote new seasons of Rake and Jack Irish simultaneously, a process he calls, unsurprisingly, "a blur".
If there was an AACTA award for Australia's busiest screenwriter, Andrew Knight would take the prize in a cakewalk.
Andrew Knight is not a critic of Australia's film schools but if he were invited to lecture on screenwriting he'd take a radically different approach.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts will stage screenings of Strangerland, Glitch, Ruben Guthrie and Last Cab to Darwin in the next two months as it ramps up its events program for members.
In a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years, writer-producer Andrew Knight has rarely been so busy.
Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and Russell Crowe's The Water Diviner tied for best film at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) awards in Sydney.