Feore, Charlebois join bilingual comedy cast
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 | 2:21 PM ET
The Canadian Press
Veteran producer Kevin Tierney, left, is working on the French Immersion project with his son Jacob Tierney, right, shown at the 2009 CFTPA producer's award ceremony on in September 2009. (Jessica Wong/CBC)Quebec singer Robert Charlebois, veteran actor Colm Feore and Dan For Mayor star Fred Ewanuick are part of a sprawling ensemble cast shooting a bilingual comedy about Canada's French-English divide this summer.
Bon Cop Bad Cop producer Kevin Tierney makes his directorial debut with French Immersion, about a group of five English-speakers — one each from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, Ontario and New York — who converge on a small Quebec town to learn French.
The Trotsky director Jacob Tierney joins a cast also including Love and Savagery's Martha Burns, This Hour Has 22 Minutes comic Gavin Crawford, Two and a Half Men's Emmanuelle Vaugier, and Polytechnique lead Karine Vanasse.
Charlebois plays a senator who uses his influence to help the French-language school run by his daughter while Vanasse plays a teacher with a heart of gold.
Publicists say shooting takes place over the next six weeks in Saint-Cesaire, Que., about 60 kilometres east of Montreal.
The film is set for release on Canada Day, July 1, 2011.
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