‘Two Hands’ TV series among Screen Australia’s 28 recipients of Story Development Funding

Gregor Jordan's crime comedy goes to series, a live action family film from Ludo, and a gay romance anthology are among projects sharing $950,000.

Screen Australia has announced that its final 2020/21 Story Development Funding round of $975,000 will be shared between 12 feature films, 13 television dramas and three online projects.

The Two Hands news is interesting to those of us enjoying a 90s retrospective that also makes us feel old. The crime-thriller-comedy (originally starring Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown and Rose Byrne) set in Kings Cross, could make for great series TV. The now-deemed-classic film was also programmed for special event screenings at the Melbourne International Film Festival, with live music by garage band The Murlocs. (Latest restrictions throw this up in the air.)

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.