A Monmouth family is getting ready to hit the red carpet as their new feature film gets set to premier this Sunday.

Lynda Myer-Bennett and Clive Myer's The Orchard has been selected to be screened at Cambridge Film Festival on Sunday 29th September, and it will make its Welsh premier at the Savoy Theatre in Monmouth next Wednesday (2nd October).

The owners of Eclectic Films, based in Monmouth, have created their first feature film based around Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

A family affair, the pair's daughter, Dorothea Myer-Bennett has taken one of the six acting roles, and son George Bennett worked as second camera man. Both children were educated in Monmouth.

The play follows the story of six actor friends who come together in a house, (the Myer family home) to put on an improvised performance of The Cherry Orchard. The play is out to challenge how blurred the lines between acting and reality can become as regret, loss, spite and jealousy take the actors over.

As all six gather in the garden to make their theatrical entrance, audience members can but wait to see if they will ever be friends again.

Clive and Lynda began the process of creating The Orchard in 2011, and shot the feature film over one weekend in 2012. A year of editing later and the play will be shown next Wednesday in the Savoy Theatre. Free to watch, the film will begin at 7.30pm.

After careers in the film industry, Clive and Lynda were able to bring in some heavy-weight backing and contacts to help bring the film together. These include a cast of successful actors, music by Towering Inferno's Andy Saunders and even the same cameras used to make 2010 hit Monsters.

"It is a unique film," said Clive, "It could be categorised as Arthouse as it crosses drama with documentary. At many points it becomes impossible to tell whether the actors are acting or not. The most well-known film we can compare it to is The Blair Witch Project."

The Myer family, from Llanwarne, created the film on a very small budget, paying for much of it themselves. "This is a true independent film," said Lynda. "We wanted play it in the Savoy to support a fantastic local theatre, and in turn they are doing their bit to support local film-making."