Tracking Shot June 2010: Farmiga’s Higher Ground, Fresnadillo’s Intruders and PTA’s The Master?

At the beginning of every month, IONCINEMA.com’s “Tracking Shot” features about a half-dozen projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This June, we are keeping tabs on the newly announced docu-comedy project from Morgan Spurlock who’ll be chasing the nerd core at Comic-con this year. Bradley Rust Gray must be all smiles now that casting is complete for his long gestating project — casting is now officially in place. Announced during the Cannes film festival, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will begin filming his latest thriller with two big name talents on board and only one 11 year-old girl left to cast. We have Vera Farmiga‘s directorial debut in the works – basing herself on Carolyn Briggs’ memoir This Dark World which is thematically touching upon some items explored in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s scientology project — the status of the project should be known fairly soon, but from what we hear this will begin lensing sometime this month and more casting mentions were noticed today. Update: We added Julia Loktev to the slate. To find out more on each film, simply click on the titles/links below.

Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan’s Hope
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Screenwriter: Joss Whedon
Producers: Jeremy Chilnick, Harry Jay Knowles, Stan Lee, Thomas Tull and Whedon
Filming in San Diego

Higher Ground
Director: Vera Farmiga
Screenwriter: Carolyn Briggs, Tim Metcalfe
Producers: Renn Hawkey, Carly Hugo, Matthew Parker and Jon Rubinstein
Cast: Farmiga, Dagmara Dominczyk, John Hawkes, Donna Murphy, Bill Irwin and Joshua Leonard
Filming in Upstate New York

Intruders
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Screenwriters: Nicolás Casariego and Jaime Marques
Producers: Belén Atienza and Enrique López Lavigne
Cast: Clive Owen and Daniel Brühl
Filming in London, England and Madrid, Spain.

Jack and Diane
Director: Bradley Rust Gray
Producers: Gray, So Yong Kim, Karin Chien (The Exploding Girl) and Jen Gatien (For Ellen)
Cast: Riley Keough, Juno Temple, Cara Seymour
Filming in New York City, New York

The Loneliest Planet
Director: Julia Loktev
Producers: Producers: Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen, Flying Moon’s Helge Albers and Marie Therese Guirgis
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Hani Furstenberg
Filming in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia

The Master
Director/Screenwriter: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producers: John Lesher, Bill Pohlad and Jo Anne Sellar
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeremy Renner, Reese Witherspoon
Filming in: TBA