Gemini nominated actress Leonie Forbes will play a social worker Leda Serene Films' next project, Cop Killers, scheduled to go before the lens next summer.
The script for the low-budget feature film - a fictional story inspired by newspaper reports of two homeless woman who killed a Toronto police officer - is currently being developed through improvisational process by the actors and Leda Film's director, producer and writer Frances-Anne Solomon, a release said Monday.
Jamaica-born Forbes, a decorated and celebrated actress in her homeland, was nominated for "Best Individual Performance" in an episode of Lord Have Mercy, at last October's Gemini Awards. The sitcom that ran on VisionTV was a landmark series for Leda Films who won a nomination for "Best Comedy Program or Series."
The Cop Killers story revolves around Rose Cece and Mary Taylor - both sent to prison for stabbing death of Police Constable William Hancox, in August 1998. Forbes is portraying social worker Grace Edwards, through whose eyes the story is told.
Solomon is creator, director and team writer of the project, which, in its development phase, is being supported by Telefilm. Cece and Taylor will be portrayed by Valerie Buhagiar and Gail Maurice.
Cop Killers "is in keeping with the successful production record of Frances-Anne Solomon," the release says, Solomon had her professional beginnings at the BBC in 1989 and has garnered international acclaim for her work in radio, TV and film.
Through her Toronto-based Leda Films, Solomon "has sought to produce high quality dramas that uniquely reflects Canada's rich diversity, in front and behind the camera".
She's currently developing other projects such as, Urban life Skillz, and Closed To The Heart, a mother-daughter story set in Montreal.
