In 1850s Australia, in the lively colony of Port Victory, Jack Dawkins, aka The Artful Dodger (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), is now a surgeon who still has a penchant for crime.
Nearly 30 projects will share in $975,000 of story development funding from Screen Australia, including a television series inspired by the 1999 film 'Two Hands' from director Gregor Jordan, and a family feature film from the producers of 'Bluey'.
The drama is adapted from Australian/South African writer Malla Nunn's 'A Beautiful Place to Die', centering on a white detective in apartheid-era South Africa with a dangerous secret: he is in fact mixed race.
Goalpost Pictures has optioned the Detective Emmanuel Cooper book series from Australian/South African writer Malla Nunn.