A Friend from Whistling Woods approached me to back this project and I was very happy to oblige with a generous contribution to make this wonderful movie live and real.
I wish her all the very best with the movie.
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Paul Collins-Reddin and Joanna Handley bring to you a stunning short adaptation of the beautiful Scottish Folklore "The Selkie Bride"
The greatest achievement man can make is to learn to love; but even love is not powerful enough to change who you truly are.
Our short film is a new telling of the timeless Scottish tale about the Selkie Bride; a story about a man living in solitude until he falls in love with a beautiful woman. However, this love is conditional as she is one of the mythical Selkie people. Through his kindness and caring she learns to love him and give up her home and family in the sea to have a life with him.
But no matter how strong their love is, she does not belong on land and must choose between her love for this man, or her true home in the deep waters.
Selkie poster by Matt Dixon
In order to make this film the best it can be we of course need a budget to work with.
Which is where you and your generosity comes in; you will contribute towards things like:
Equipment hire; we plan to hire out some fantastic lenses in order to get the best images from our locations and actors.
Actors; to get the best performance we need to keep our cast happy!
Locations; we have some incredible locations to work with but of course nothing worth using is free.
Props and Costume; we have an incredible art department developing some incredible costumes to work with but materials have a price on them
Catering and Travel; Remember we said we need to keep our actors happy? They're happiest when they're not hungry!
Festival submissions; On completion of post-production we would love to look into festival submissions to distribute 'Selkie' to. However that can only happen if we have made a good enough film which unfortunately isn't free to do!
Wide still of Brancaster Beach where we hope to film the exterior scenes; Taken by Production Designer Nicholas Tag-Harvey
The money you donate will only be put towards creating the best visual telling of this story possible; the more you donate, the better we can make our film.
We want to create a stunning film based off of this beautiful folktale and this is the sole purpose of your donations so please help us. We are also more than happy for you to follow the films progress through our Facebook and Twitter pages; where backers will receive personal thank you's throughout funding.
Wonderful model, Elena Mitchell, posing as our Selkie on Brancaster Beach, Norfolk
Meet The Crew
Producer: Joanna Handley. Joanna is crazy for having a passion for paperwork! With years of acting experience and in recent years switching to behind the camera Joanna has seen both sides to filmmaking. She has experience as a runner and continuity with the Rural Media Company and recently taken on the bigger role of Producer having produced other successful projects and passionate about doing this one justice!
Director: Paul Collins-Reddin. Paul has a strong acting background, working on a number of famous Film and Television sets from the age of 12. Through this experience he developed a love for film making and has since gained experience as a runner/researcher at Tiger Aspects, and worked freelance for a number of different companies as a Director, Camera Operator and Editor. Being the originator for this project, Paul has a strong passion for it, and is confident our vision can be achieved.
One of our challenges will be controlling the weather; unfortunately not all the money in the world could help us do that. However as we plan to film on the beach, in Norfolk (UK), in February, after one of our reportedly worst winters we may have a long couple of days filming! Now whether raining, sunshine or snow we can easily make our shots on the beach beautiful, and work to our advantage. Though we may need a few extra outdoor heaters for our actors!
We will be filming our interiors nearby so should the worst happen and our exterior filming days need to be rescheduled we always have a Plan B, C and so on to work with!
Reward : Incredible! Including the above, you will receive copies of the concept art used for the films production including paintings and storyboards!
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