The Sang a Klang shouded in secrecy for the shooting of Skin Walker;

Calach Films, with producer Jesus Gonzalez, is currently shooting the psychological thriller by Chris Neuman in the Grand Duchy.

Yesterday was the turn of the Sang a Klang in Pfaffenthal, normally the home of Luxembourg's Blues' Club, to be shrouded in black drapes, to be transformed into a film set, shooting an interior scene, with numerous nearby small car parks and other spaces cordoned off to make way for the cast and crew, equipment, trailers and tents - all in all a huge involvement just for a minute or so's final result to be seen on the big screen in roughly 12 months from now.

With around 70 extras involved yesterday, Casting Director Tara Donnell had her hands full - with phone, laptop and adorned with a headset too - but the director and others were busy linking actor Jefferson Hall with a harness - not to hang from the ceiling and fly off somewhere, but so that a dance floor scene could have him and the cameraman twirl around together, remaining equidistant at all times. How many takes they required of twirling around would have been interesting to hang around for... The interior had been adorned with black, red and white bunting, colours that matched the traditional costumes worn by many of the extras.

The shooting started on 25 September and will last until 25 October - everything is scheduled tightly and there is little room for manoeuvre. Then there is another 4 weeks shooting in Belgium until the wrap on 23 November. Before it moves across the border, it will have been to Arcelor Mittal in Shifflange, the Plateau du Rahm, a convalescence centre in Colpach-Bas, Berdorf, Remich, the Chateau de Meysembourg, Filmland in Kehlen, Ehnen and the Sang a Klang in Pfaffenthal...

In the main roles of this film that has received 2/3 funding from the Film Fund Luxembourg and the rest from Wallonia, are Amber Anderson, Udo Kier, Jefferson Hall, Luc Schiltz and Luc Feit, as well as Sophie Mousel, Marja-Leena Junker and Sarah Lamesch. It is all in English
 
Logline: When her grandmother is brutally murdered, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage with the family guilt she’s tried to shut out of her life - and to connect with the brother she has never known.
 
Synopsis
 
Regine, a psychologically fragile young woman, is hiding away in the city, far from the dark and forbidding countryside of her traumatic childhood. She’s struggling to construct the loving family she never had, and to rise above the events of the past: above all, the disastrous home birth of her brother Isaac, which led to her mother’s insanity and Isaac’s apparent death.
 
But the city is tense and hostile, and contains its own threats. An abusive relationship with the controlling psychiatrist who’s treating her mother is already blighting Regine’s life when the brutal murder of her grandmother raises a crucial question: is Isaac still alive, and looking for revenge against a family which he feels has rejected him? 
 
Driven to heal the wounds of the past and to reunite her family by connecting with the brother she’s never met, Regine must return to the site of her previous traumas and confront the true source of her family’s guilt.  It could make sense of her life – or throw it into unending chaos.