Quebec filmmaker Lea Pool is working on her first English-language feature, based on the novel Taxi pour la Liberte (Taxi for Freedom) by French-Canadian journalist Gilles Gougeon.

Pool is penning the screenplay and is slated to direct. Lorraine Richard (Pool’s Emporte-moi) is attached to produce.

The film will centre on three refugees coping with isolation and displacement.

Richard, who estimates the budget at $5 million, is looking for foreign co-production deals, possibly with Germany and Turkey since much of the film will take place on location in those countries. There is also the possibility of Swiss production financing. ‘We have to look at how all this can be locked together because sometimes when a lot of parties are involved, it becomes very difficult,’ she says, noting that each country has its own sets of funding regulations.