the film's six-week shooting schedule will be at the soundstage of the Manitoba Production Centre.

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Faces in the Crowd, starring Milla Jovovich and Julian McMahon, began shooting in Winnipeg on Saturday and continues until June 15. Resident Evil star Jovovich, who has already been seen in town in the company of her two-year-old daughter, stars as a woman who barely survives an attack by a serial killer known as Tearjerk Jack, and emerges from the experience with an inability to see faces.

Also in town, Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck) plays the police detective trying to protect Jovovich's elementary schoolteacher from another attack.

She has not arrived yet, but rock legend Marianne Faithfull will also be in the film, playing "Dr. Langenkamp," the therapist who tries to help Jovovich's character throughher trauma.

The film's writer-director Julien Magnat, like Gens, was born in France and has a history in French genre cinema, and received both writer and director credits on the comic book movie Bloody Mallory.

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The Quebec-Manitoba co-production titled The Year Dolly Parton was My Mom, is a girl's coming-of-age comedy set in the year 1976. It launched a three-week Manitoba shoot on Monday, after starting principal photography in Montreal on April 12.

It's about 11-year-old Elizabeth (Julia Stone), who is jolted from her sleepy suburban Winnipeg existence when she discovers she was adopted and sets out on a cross-country trek to find her birth mom while her adoptive mother (Macha Grenon of The Barbarian Invasions) pursues her. Gil Bellows also stars as Elizabeth's dad.

Written and directed by Tara