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Krystal Joy Brown (“One Royal Holiday”) and Curtis Hamilton (“Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le”) will be leading an upcoming independent holiday film, “A Christmas Retreat,“ from The Ninth House producers, Autumn Federici and Jake Helgren.

According to Deadline, the story follows Mikaela Leighton (Brown) a beautiful, successful writer of a witty, single-girl-in-the-city series Maya Takes The Town. Mikaela’s late mother was also a famous author, known for hosting an intimate writer’s retreat with a handful of burgeoning writers. This year, Mikaela is knee-deep in the throes of her famous series’ very last book-but having a tough time finding the proper ending, she decides the inspiration she needs is to revive her mother’s renowned writer’s retreat at her father, Irving Leighton’s (James Black) snowy chalet.

Amongst the handful of quirky writers to attend is handsome Levi Mcguire (Hamilton) who is not only a fan of Mikaela’s mother, but who has also been assigned to write a story about her late mother’s legacy. Levi, a dedicated writer of nonfiction, immediately starts off on the wrong foot with Mikaela, but as they participate in various holiday activities and challenges, Mikaela soon starts to see and appreciate Levi’s fearless outlook on life and love, and it soon seems like a romance is blossoming between them amidst the whimsical holiday backdrop. But when Mikaela is finally inspired to give her fictional character the happy ending she deserves, she wonders if love has found her in real life as well, but suddenly retreats from Levi just before Christmas when she discovers his intentions of writing about her mother’s legacy.

Meg Steedle (as Olive), Gavyn Michaels (as Keifer), Dawnn Lewis (as Sharon), Max Emerson (as Mitchell), Samantha Quan (as Gigi), and Renee Ashton (as Tracy) round out the cast.

This will be the second Christmas movie for Brown as we saw her in last year’s “One Royal Holiday” for the Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas programming event.

I will keep you posted when I get more information on how and when you can watch “A Christmas Retreat” as you know there’s always the possibility it could pop up during a holiday programming slate from Hallmark, Lifetime, TV One, etc. I hope it does!

Stay merry!