Romantic comedy ‘Falling for Figaro’ starring Danielle MacDonald and Hugh Stevens with Joanna Lumley and Shazad Latif has been picked as one of 30 ‘Industry Selects’ for the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Joining a fantastic selection of films from 29 countries around the world,  hand-picked by TIFF’s industry and festival programming teams and will screen to accredited users on the festival’s dedicated press and industry platform, TIFF Digital Cinema Pro.

Set in the fierce world of opera competitions – featuring music from The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Romeo and Juliet and La Traviata. Millie (Macdonald) is a brilliant young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend behind to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer… in the Scottish Highlands! She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop (Lumley). It is there she meets Max (Skinner), another of Meghan’s students who is also training for the upcoming “Singer of Renown” contest. What begins as stiff competition between Millie and Max slowly turns into something more…

Falling for Figaro is an official Australian and UK co-production written by Ben Lewin and Allen Palmer, and produced by Philip Wade (I Am Mother), Judi Levine (The Sessions) and Arabella Page Croft (Sunshine on Leith). In association with Wade Brothers Films, the film received principal production funding from Screen Australia and Screen Scotland and was financed with support from Film Victoria. The film is currently in post-production in Australia. WestEnd will continue handling world sales at the Cannes market and Umbrella Entertainment will release the film in Australia & New Zealand.