Montreal filmmaker Sebastian McKinnon is directing his debut feature The Stolen Child, starring Stephen McHattie (Watchmen).

The film, also written by McKinnon, is based on the Kin Fables film project from him and his brother Ben via their company, Five Knights Productions. The Stolen Child began filming in Vancouver on Oct. 21 before wrapping on Nov. 29. Production will continue in Montreal from Dec. 9 to 19. Additional filming will take place in Iceland and France between April 1 to 12, 2025.

The Stolen Child focuses on a poet who leads three heroes into faerie territory in order to rescue a lost prince and restore peace. Jason James Richter (The Little Things) and Teddy Van Ee (The Girl in the Woods) also star.

The film is produced by Montreal-based Metafilms’ Catherine Boily (The Card Counter) and Vancouver-based Cowpi Media’s Tara Cowell-Plain (Dragged Across Concrete). Executive producers include Metafilms’ Sylvain Corbeil (A Universal Language) and L.A.-based LB Entertainment’s Lee Broda (The Apprentice), as well as Francis Cucuzzella, Carl Francesco, Stephen Robusto and Joel Martinez.

The Stolen Child will be distributed in Canada by Immina Films for a theatrical release in 2026. Picture Tree International is handling sales in the rest of the world.

The film was financed through private equity and crowd funding as well as provincial and federal tax credits, a spokesperson for Immina Films told Playback Daily.

McKinnon, known as an artist for the Magic: The Gathering card game, will also compose an original soundtrack for the film under the pseudonym CLANN.

Image courtesy of Metafilms