Avalon Studios, Umbrella Leisure and Liz Mullane have boarded Elizabeth ‘Biz’ Crummett’s “Delia’s Ghost,” additional including momentum to the film venture which received a prestigious Frontières FanPitch Finest Characteristic Pitch Award at 2024’s Sitges Worldwide Improbable Movie Pageant.

Billed as an elevated supernatural drama with horror DNA, “Delia’s Ghost” is now set to be introduced at this week’s Frontières Market which runs parallel to Montreal’s Fantasia Movie Pageant.

Avalon Studios, a manufacturing facility at Wellington, New Zealand, will function a co-producer and investor. Titles filmed at Avalon embody “Mortal Engines” and Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2045.” 

Umbrella, a mainstay of native manufacturing, has signed a letter of intent for distribution in Australia and New Zealand.  

In the meantime, Liz Mullane, casting director, New Zealand on “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit,” has joined “Delia’s Ghost” as its casting director.

Co-written by Crummett, “Delia’s Ghost” is ready up at Be Hope Movies, headed by Belindalee Hope who produced “The American,” starring Talia Ryder and Diane Kruger, a Deauville 2023 closing evening choice, and TV collection “Madam,” with Rachel Griffiths, which received on the 2024 Monte Carlo TV Pageant and AsianAcademy TV Awards.   

A redemption story, “Delia’s Ghost” activates Eddy, the pissed-off ghost of a 1979 punk, who’s caught in the home the place he died – offended, forgotten, and spiralling in a dying loop. 

Then 10-year-old Cordelia strikes into the home. She sees ghosts, doesn’t scare simple, and if she has to, she’ll burn their hauntings to the bottom together with her backpack of lighters. 

She asks Eddy’s assist, nonetheless, to battle her Headmaster Barlow, a soul-ensnaring spectre who nonetheless guidelines the varsity he based over a century in the past, monstrously powered by the souls of his captive ghost kids.

As her no-bullshit mom Molly fights to tug her again from the sting, Cordelia takes issues into her personal fingers. To free the ghost kids, she’ll danger every little thing – even herself, the synopsis ends. 

On the coronary heart of the story is the bonding of Eddy and Cordelia, and Eddy’s transformation from poltergeist to her guardian angel as his existence finds the aim it by no means had when he was alive. 

“It’s a narrative about loss, limbo and the ability of connection – instructed by means of the sudden bond between Cordelia, an odd little outcast, and Eddy, a bitter punk ghost trapped in purgatory. Their friendship is the movie’s heartbeat, inverted, touching, humorous, and in the end about redemption,” stated Crummett.    

“At its core, ‘Delia’s Ghost’ is about clawing your method again to hope, even when the world has given up on you – even when you’ve gotten given up on your self,” added Hope. “In a time when every little thing feels damaged, it’s a deeply human story about transformation by means of connection. We don’t heal in isolation. We evolve collectively – even ghosts.”  

Crummett’s authentic horror function movie script “Pantomime” was put into growth by Blumhouse Photos in 2018 beneath the late, government producer Rae Roberts.  Her 2023 quick “The Understudy” world-premiered at Los Angeles’ Grand Chinese language Theater and was chosen to display at a dozen worldwide movie festivals world wide together with Screamfest LA, New York Metropolis Horror Fest and San Diego Comedian-Con. 

“Delia’s Ghost” can be written by Hamish Brown, whose credit embody¡ Pantomime, The Understudy and authentic animated collection “Omega Joe,” chosen to premiere-exhibit on the Asian Animation Summit in South Korea. 

Prep begins March 2026, with principal images slated for April–Might 2026 in Wellington, New Zealand. Mullane was casting director on Peter Jackson’s “Heavenly Creatures,” Kate Winslet’s breakout film. Casting is now underway as Mullane conducts a broad seek for the 2 leads of “Delia’s Ghost.”