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Scots screen stars set to provide Highlands with film boost

07/12/2012

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Scots screen stars set to provide Highlands with film boost

SCOTS screen stars Kevin McKidd and Ashley Jensen are to give the Highlands another boost after it was announced their latest movie is to be filmed in the area.

Shooting on the £2.6million film Indian Summer is to start early next year.

The bittersweet romance is set to star Elgin-born McKidd and fellow Scot Jensen, who was in Ugly Betty and Extras.

The news comes less than a month after the world premiere of Disney Pixar animation Brave, which is also set in the Highlands.

Brave could boost the Scottish economy by £140million.

Indian Summer is set on a remote farm in the Highlands in the summer of 1967.

It follows the life of 11-year-old Dean O’Donal, sent to live with relatives after his parents are killed in a car accident.

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Indian Summer Update

07/04/2012

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Michael Hamlyn’s Specific Films (the outfit behind Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert) is planning to begin production early next year on its new $4 million feature Indian Summer.

The film, which is to be written and directed by Brian Ward, will shoot in the Highlands. Kevin McKidd [pictured] and Ashley Jensen are attached. Further cast is expected to be announced shortly. The film is billed as “a bittersweet romance about love, life and identity, set in a remote farm in the Scottish Highlands in the summer of 1967.”

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Updates from Kevin

05/03/2011

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Indian Summer ~ In development (building finance) [official website]

Atlantic Bridge ~ In development (casting and scouting locations)

New Richard Jobson Movie (no title provided) ~ In development (building finance) [link]

Reign of Blood ~ This is incorrect - not attached

'comes a bright day' ~ a London heist movie -Kevin is playing a London psycho with a stutter (filming starts in London within the next few weeks) [Imdb] character : Cameron

thanks to Kevin for once again touching base with us and updating us on his latest projects

Updated to add: Today Kevin is off to a 5hour recording session for the Disney/Pixar production of Brave
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Indian Summer website

12/18/2010

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Indian Summer Website

Shooting in Scotland in the spring of 2011, Indian Summer is a bittersweet romance about love, life and identity, set on a remote farm in the Scottish Highlands in summer of 1967, the “Summer of Love”. It’s the story of an orphaned boy, his embittered uncle, and beautiful but lonely aunt, whose lives are changed forever by the arrival of an exotic stranger, who is not only a U.S. Marine, but a Native American Indian.

Inspired by the timeless Western Shane, it’s a movie in the tradition of classics like Whistle Down the Wind, The Go-Between, Kes and Local Hero, and recent popular hits like Finding Neverland, Billy Elliot and About a Boy. It’s a life-affirming, magical, feel-good movie (with a classic 60s soundtrack) that celebrates the wild and beautiful Scottish landscape, and contrasts the innocence of childhood with the secret passions of the adult world.

The screenplay is written by Brian Ward (The Interpreter, Death Defying Acts) and after many years directing music films and TV drama, this is his feature debut as director. He is backed by an experienced production team including producer Iain Brown, Executive Producers Mike Kelt & Joanna Dewar Gibb, casting director Maureen Duff, editor Alex Mackie & director of photography Denis Crossan.
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Kevin McKidd, Ashley Jensen sign up for Scottish romantic drama

09/07/2010

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 7 September, 2010 | By Sarah Cooper

Kevin McKidd anad Ashley Jensen are attached to star in Indian Summer, a romantic drama set in the Scottish Highlands in 1967, which will be the directorial debut of screenwriter Brian Ward.

Ward has also written the screenplay for the film, which tells the story of an orphan boy and his uncle and aunt whose lonely lives are changed forever when they meet a US Marine who also happens to be a Native American.

His previous writing credits include The Interpreter and Death Defying Acts.

Indian Summer is being produced by Suzanne Reid for Glasgow based production company Capricorn Films. Reid will be taking the project to the Toronto Film Festival, as one of six producers chosen for the Features Scotland initiative, which helps producers to promote their films internationally.

The film is due to shoot spring/summer 2011.
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