Filming for Sunset Song movie in Aberdeenshire begins
ByThe Courier Reporter
Agyness Deyn and Kevin Guthrie in a scene from the film.
Productions of the film adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel Sunset Song is under way in Scotland.
The movie stars Peter Mullan and former model Agyness Deyn and is directed by Terence Davies. Scenes have already been shot abroad but principal photography has now started in Aberdeenshire.
The book tells the story of Chris Guthrie growing up in a farming family in the Mearns.
The film-makers have chosen to shoot on 65mm film, a larger than usual film stock, to capture the beauty of the landscape.
Caroline Parkinson, director of creative development at Creative Scotland, who have helped fund the film, said: “It’s great to see an iconic and well-known Scottish story being translated to the big screen by an internationally renowned director.”
The shoot began in New Zealand, to capture the March harvest season, followed by interior work at Filmland in Luxembourg, whose film agency has contributed £1.5 million towards production costs.
Filming for Sunset Song movie in Aberdeenshire begins
