Brit helmer Amma Asante is attached to direct feature pic "
Belle," with Damian Jones' shingle DJ Films producing.
Story, set in the 1780s, follows a mixed-race girl that is adopted into an aristocratic family, who faces class and color prejudices. As she blossoms into a young woman, she soon develops a relationship with a local vicar's son, who happens to be an advocate for slave emancipation.