NewUK-based digital film production and distribution company Slingshot will beginshooting its debut feature Sugarhouse Lane on Aug 21.

DirectorGary Love makes his feature film debut, with a script by Dominic Leyton basedon his stage play Collision. MichaelRiley is producing.

Sugarhouse Lane will star StevenMackintosh as a middle-class boy who becomes involved with a drug addict playedby Ashley Walters and a local crimelord played by AndySerkis.

Slingshotis co-producing with Wolf Committee's Oliver Milburn and Ben Dixon and LunarFilms' Matthew Justice.

Sugarhouse Lane will be shot on locationin Bow, East London, and is the first of 10 low-budget features thatthe company has planned over the next three years.

SlingshotCEO Arvind Ethan David said: "In less than six monthswe have gone from our first meeting with the writer to the first day ofprincipal photography - this is not something that happens very often in theBritish film industry. For SugarhouseLane to have managed it - and with a cast and crew as excellent andexciting as this categorically proves that what matters is the strength of yourbelief, the integrity of your approach and the quality of the material; not thesize of your budget."

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The filmis using a profit-share production model for creative and technical talent andco-producers.

Announcingthe project, Arvind Ethan David, CEO and Producer,slingshot commented:

"Theenergy and pace of this project make it a perfect fit with slingshot's ownethos. In less than six months we have gonefrom our first meeting with the writer to the first day of principalphotography - this is not something that happens very often in the British filmindustry. For SUGARHOUSE LANE to have managed it - and with a cast andcrew as excellent and exciting as this - categorically proves that what mattersis the strength of your belief, the integrity of your approach and the qualityof the material; not the size of your budget. The talent and commitment of ourcollaborators on this project affirms our faith in the slingshot model, andfills us all with fire to make a really great film'.

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