MUMBAI: Production on the first Italian-made 3D feature is due to start soon when its shooting will get underway in Canada.

The $7.3m film, called Hidden, is an Italy-Canada co-production and will be made in English. The film is being produced by Andrea Marotti for ReDark with Andre Rouleau for Montreal-based Caramel Films.

The horror-thriller is about an abandoned experimental medical centre that harbours a deadly secret. It only becomes known when a restoration project begins.

Canada will provide 80 per cent of the financing while the remaining will come from private equity sources in Italy.
The effects team for Hidden boasts of John Sheele among other Hollywood productions. Sheele is credited as 3D supervisor for the project. John Attard will supervise the visual effects.

Casting is set and made up of largely unknown talents while a directorial duo from Italy and Canada will be announced very soon.