GAME of Thrones actress Ellie Kendrick is set to star in the feature film debut of Glasgow-based screenwriter and director Hope Dickson Leach.
The film, The Levelling, is set in the aftermath of the 2014 Somerset floods and follows a young woman who returns home to her family dairy farm following the tragic death of her younger brother.
Mr Kendrick, best known for playing Meera Reed in the hit TV series and playing the title role in BBC miniseries The Diary of Anne Frank, has been confirmed as part of the cast in the feature film, which is being funded by low-budget filmmaking scheme, iFeatures.
Producer Rachel Robey, of Wellington Films, will produce the feature, while executive producers include Lizzie Francke from the British Film Institute, Steve Jenkins from BBC Films, and Christopher Moll and Christopher Granier-Deferre from Creative England.
Ms Dickson Leach is a well known short filmmaker and has had films selected for Sundance, Edinburgh and the BFI London films festivals.
Ms Franck said: "Hope is a tremendous and unique filmmaking talent whose short films have shown that she has a particular vision and we look forward to seeing her bring her filmmaker’s eye to the vicissitudes of rural life."
Mr Granier-Deferre added: "I couldn’t be prouder of The Levelling, a film that thrusts iFeatures into the heart of rural England with a terrifically dramatic and moving portrait of agrarian life."
The movie will be filmed in Somerset in a four-week shoot that will finish at the end of this month.
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