MUMBAI: Filming of an untitled project helmed by two-time Oscar-nominated director Gus Van Sant starring Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper has begun on location in Portland, Oregon.

The film produced by Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, and Bryce Dallas Howard and Gus Van Sant has screenplay by first-timer Jason Lew based upon his original stage play Of Winter and Water Birds has Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk and Jane Adams in the supporting cast.

The film, a coming of age story, of two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love will offer a take on friendship and young love as engaging and true as it is provocative and stirring.

Said producer Bryce Dallas Howard, "This film is a quietly epic coming of age story. It captures the profoundly defining turning point of a young person's life with stark realism, irreverent humor, and intense emotion.

"I think that Gus was drawn to this story because he has an uncanny ability to convey the complexities of youth and outsiders. For this is, above all else, the journey of an outsider."