TORONTO - Prominent Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has started shooting his new film "Adoration,'' about a teenager who uses the Internet to misrepresent himself.
Egoyan's production company, Ego Film Arts, in association with The Film Farm, say principal photography began in Toronto on Monday and will continue in and around the area through Oct. 22.
The film stars Arsinee Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Noam Jenkins, Devon Bostick and Kenneth Welsh and explores the nature of how we relate to media, said Egoyan.
"When I started exploring technology in the '80s, I always thought that these instruments distanced us from each other,'' Egoyan, who co-wrote the film, said in a release.
"But now I realize it's actually about putting us much closer to each other than we ever would have expected.''
The Oscar-nominated Egoyan, who lives in Toronto, is also producing the film, along with Simone Urdl and Jennifer Weiss of The Film Farm.
Acclaimed Canadian producer Robert Lantos, who has worked with Egoyan on six other projects, is executive producer of this piece.
Maximum Films owns worldwide distribution rights to the film, excluding France, where ARP will handle it.
