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

Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - 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.

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