Around the Block to begin production in Redfern

Writer/director Sarah Spillane

A new film starring American actress Christina Ricci and local veteran actor Jack Thompson is due to begin filming in Sydney this month.

Written and directed by  Sarah Spillane and produced by Su Armstrong, Brian Rosen and Andrew Fierberg, for Tree Productions, Around the Block is about a young American drama teacher at Redfern High School who helps an Indigenous student on his path to becoming an actor by staging a production of Hamlet.

Snowtown’s Daniel Henshall,  Bikie Wars’ Damien Walshe-Howling, TV presenter Ruby Rose, Matt Nable and Madeline Madden have also been cast along with Hunter Lochard Page as Liam, the aspiring actor.