Director Mary Harron Currently Behind the Camera for the big Screen Adaptation of THE MOTH DIARIES

Director Mary Harron Currently Behind the Camera for the big Screen Adaptation of THE MOTH DIARIES

MONTREAL, September 9, 2010/PRNewswire/ --

- Shooting Under way in Montreal

THE MOTH DIARIES commenced principal photography on the
official Canada-Ireland co-production on August 31 on location in and around
Montreal. The gothic horror feature film written and directed by Mary Harron
is based on the cult novel of the same name written by Rachel Klein. The
motion picture stars Lily Cole, Sarah Gadon, Sarah Bolger and Scott Speedman.
Production continues until October 8.

At Brangwyn, an elite girls' boarding school, Rebecca (Sarah
Bolger), a young girl haunted by her father's suicide, begins her junior year
hoping for a fresh start. From the outset, her friendship with sunny,
innocent Lucy (Sarah Gadon) is shattered by the arrival of Ernessa (Lily
Cole), a mysterious, dark and beautiful girl from Europe. As her friendship
with Lucy slips away, Rebecca develops a crush on her handsome English
professor, Mr. Davies (Scott Speedman), who is teaching a course on
supernatural fiction.

The supernatural elements in THE MOTH DIARIES are rooted in
the real experience of a young girl faced with her emerging sexuality and
caught in a web of obsessive friendship, jealousy and betrayal.

The film's producers are Sandra Cunningham of Strada Films,
Karine Martin of Mediamax (a division of Mediabiz International) and David
Collins of Irish production company Samson Films. Ronald Gilbert of Mediamax
is the co-producer. Executive producers are Edward R. Pressman of Edward R.
Pressman Film, Jean-François Doray and Louis-Simon Ménard of Mediabiz
International.

Director and screenwriter Mary Harron is best-known for her
acclaimed feature film American Psycho, based on Bret Easton Ellis'
controversial novel, starring Christian Bale and produced by Edward R.
Pressman, as well as her films I Shot Andy Warhol and The Notorious Bettie
Page, the story of 1950s pinup and bondage model Bettie Page.

Lily Cole's successful modeling career, in which she has been
photographed for Chanel, Hermès and Louis Vuitton among others, has made Lily
one of the most recognizable faces in the world. Her first leading role was
in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus in which she starred
alongside Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law, and for
which she recently garnered a 2010 Scream Awards nomination for Best Fantasy
Actress.

Dublin-based Sarah Bolger recently starred opposite Jonathan
Rhys Meyers in Showtime's hit series The Tudors for which she won an Irish
Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her growing list of
film credits includes Oscar-nominated director Jim Sheridan's In America,
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker alongside Mickey Rourke and Bill Nighy and
the fantasy adventure The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Newcomer Sarah Gadon will next appear in David Cronenberg's A
Dangerous Method alongside Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley and Viggo
Mortensen, and Dream House directed by six-time Academy Award nominee Jim
Sheridan, and starring Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz.

Scott Speedman most recently starred in Atom Egoyan's film
Adoration. He also starred opposite Liv Tyler in Universal/Rogue's box office
smash The Strangers. Scott will next be seen in two Toronto International
Film Festival selections: Barney's Version, opposite Paul Giamatti and Dustin
Hoffman, and with Jay Baruchel in the thriller Good Neighbours.

THE MOTH DIARIES is produced with the financial participation
of Telefilm Canada, the Irish Film Board, Mediabiz International, Future
Films Ltd., the Harold Greenberg Fund and Windmill Lane, Dublin.

The film is distributed by Alliance Films in Canada, Lionsgate
in the UK, and represented by Cinetic in the US. Wild Bunch is responsible
for international sales. The release for the film is set for 2011.

CONTACT:
Puelo Deir, Unit Publicist
+1-514-833-9568 / puelo@puelodeir.com

Source: Mediabiz International

CONTACT: Puelo Deir, Unit Publicist, +1-514-833-9568 / puelo@puelodeir.com

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