Redmond-based Rain City Cinema announced that production will commence this summer 2015 with “Halo,” its fourth feature film.

Set in the remoteness of Eastern Washington, “Halo” is a story about downtrodden detective Nick Borrelli, who has been falsely accused of shooting an unarmed black man and fights to regain his self esteem while he and a lesbian scientist, Rachel Gauthier, battle to save the world from a deadly virus unleashed by religious extremists.

“I think ‘Halo’ definitely defines some of the key issues and complexities of the times in which we live,” said Rain City Cinema’s Paul Gorman. “It’s much more than your typical post-apocalyptic film where you don’t have a clue as to what created the ‘situation.’ This time we know what has happened and what the consequences are, but we don’t know who the ‘real’ perpetrators are.”

Gorman goes on to explain that, ‘Halo’ is a story about survival, tough choices and the dangers of extremism — not just religious, but all forms of extremism.

“It reflects the times in which we live, which are dangerous and need to change,” he said.

Rain City Cinema’s other feature films include: “Broken Frame,” which was acclaimed as ‘Film of the Day’ in the United Kingdom, the documentary “Ride the Sky,” which has appeared at four festivals in 2014, and “Roma Vendetta,” which will be released in early 2015, when it will be circulated at film festivals.