Principal photography is underway on Wildhood writer-director Bretten Hannam’s third feature, the supernatural thriller Place of Ghosts.

Filming began on Aug. 7 and is taking place in and around Halifax. The production is expected to wrap on Sept. 11.

Place of Ghosts follows siblings that have drifted apart until a malevolent spirit begins tormenting them and they are forced to reunite and journey into Skite’kmujuekati’k: the “Place of Ghosts.”

The film stars Blake Alec Miranda (S.W.A.T, pictured left), Forrest Goodluck (The English, pictured right), Glen Gould (Tulsa King) and Brandon Oakes (The Trades).

Place of Ghosts is produced by Hannam, Marc Tetreault and Jason Levangie of Shut Up & Colour Pictures, Martin Katz of Prospero Pictures, Diana Elbaum and David Ragonig of Belgium-based Beluga Tree. John R. Sylliboy is an associate producer and Cotty Chubb serves as executive producer.

Place of Ghosts is a Canada-Belgium coproduction with funding from Telefilm, the Canada Media Fund, the Nova Scotia Film Production Incentive Fund, the Indigenous Screen Office, Wallimages (Belgium) and tax credits.

The film is being distributed in Canada by VVS Films. World sales are being handled by Magnify.

“This is a story about facing buried trauma and cleaning wounds in order to heal,” said Hannam in a statement. “As Mise’l and Antle descend into the darkness of the forest, the emotions and the core of the story cut a visceral path through things left unsaid, leading to a different way of understanding each other, before doing battle with the dark spirit that threatens to consume them.”

Photos by Jor-el Vaasborg (Blake Alec Miranda) and Jan Willem Dikkers (Forrest Goodluck)