Kiwi music sensation Kimbra is expected to release new music in April.

Kimbra will make her acting debut in a big screen adaption of the musical-drama production Daffodils.

Her new commitment means the artist will take some time off from music, just over a month off from the release of her third album.

The singer stars alongside Kiwi lead actors Rose McIver, from iZombie and The Lovely Bones and George Mason, from Home and Away and Go Girls.

GARTH BADGER Daffodils is an award-winning cabaret styled production and a Kiwi love story set to the New Zealand pop-rock music that became the soundtrack to their lives.

Filming for the local feature film begins this week in Wellington, Waikato and Wairarapa.

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Daffodils, based on the play by Rochelle Bright, is scheduled to be released next year.

Micaiah Carter/Stuff Kimbra will make her big screen debut next year.

The story is set in Kimbra Johnson's hometown of Hamilton, but in the 1960s. It's a love story glued together with local music, from The Chills, Crowded House and many more beloved local artists.

This is a busy year for Kimbra. In January, the release of her third album was delayed until April.

That release, Primal Heart has been a battle but it looks like it will finally be out on April 20.

As Kimbra told Stuff in January, it hasn't been easy.

"I fight a lot with my creative self and there can be dark moments, really dark moments. You have something inside you that wants to get out, but you are hitting walls time and time again. I just try to remind myself that every artist has been in this situation, we only see the productivity of their discography, we don't see the left behind scribbles."

Filming for Daffodils means the musician must return to New Zealand for the album's release.

Her American tour recommences in May.

The film is being helmed by Kiwi director and producer David Stubbs, best known for his work on Reservoir Hill: Everyone Lies and the documentary Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses about the 2007 exorcism death of a woman from Stubbs' home suburb of Wainuiomata.