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Michelle Law acquires screen rights to One Hundred Days
Screen Australia has just announced funding for Law to commence the process of adapting the book to film.
Black Inc. has sold screen rights to One Hundred Days by Alice Pung to Michelle Law. The deal was made by Black Inc. international director Sophy Williams.
Screen Australia has just announced funding for Law to commence the process of adapting the book to film.
Screen Australia has just announced funding for Law to commence the process of adapting the book to film.
Shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award and recently sold to HarperVia in the USA, One Hundred Days is Pung’s first novel for adults. Exploring the faultlines between love and control, the novel follows 16-year-old Karuna who falls pregnant and is confined to her 14th-storey housing commission flat by her over-protective mother.
Pung is the author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, the essay collection Close to Home and the young adult novel Laurinda (all Black Inc.), which has been adapted for stage and was recently optioned for TV. She is represented by Clare Forster at Curtis Brown Australia. Alice was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to literature in 2022.
Michelle Law writes for print, theatre, and screen. Her plays include Miss Peony (set to tour in 2023), Top Coat, and the smash-hit show Single Asian Female. She is the co-creator, co-writer and co-lead of the SBS series Homecoming Queens. She is also the author of the travel book Asian Girls are Going Places, published by Hardie Grant in 2022. Recently, she was named the winner of the Arts & Culture category of the Most Influential Young Asian-Australian Awards.
Michelle Law says: "I’m beyond excited to begin the process of adapting One Hundred Days into a feature film. Alice is a national treasure and I’m pinching myself that I have the opportunity to bring this fearless and gripping story to life on screen."
Alice Pung says: "I am absolutely stoked that the talented Michelle Law has been granted funding from Screen Australia. I could not imagine my book in better creative hands, and I can't wait to see what wonders Michelle will do with it."
