Ashley Judd has signed on to star in Helen for writer-director Sandra Nettelbeck, Egoli Tossell Film and Insight Film Studios.
The film centers on a music professor and mother who suffers from a deep, debilitating depression. Her family tries to help her, but no one can relate to her pain other than a young female student who knows depression all too well.
Shooting is scheduled to begin Oct. 2 in Vancouver.
