''Selkie'' is a 2000 Australian family fantasy film. It features former
Sick Puppies
Sick Puppies is an Australian alternative metal band formed in Sydney, New South Wales in 1997. After releasing their debut album '' Welcome to the Real World'' in 2001, the band rose to prominence in 2006 when their song "All the Same" was up ...
lead singer Shimon Moore.
Plot
Jamie (Shimon Moore) is a typical teenager living the good life: a popular lad, he has a part-time job, is on the football team and is the lead guitarist in a rock band. But all this is threatened when his mum (Celine O'Leary) announces that she has a new job as head scientist at a marine research base.
Forced to uproot and move to a remote island, Jamie soon discovers that all is not as it seems. He begins to notice changes to his body – scales and webbed fingers – things beyond the explanation of teenage changes. Changes which suggest that he is somehow connected to a legendary line of
selkies – a magical people from ancient Scotland who have the power to change into seals.
Cast
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Shimon Moore
Shimon "Shim" Moore is a rock music songwriter, producer, performing artist, as well as a TV and film actor. Shimon was born on November 11, 1982, in Sydney, Australia.
Acting career
He began his acting career at the age of nine when he was cas ...
as Jamie Duncan
* Chelsea Bruland as Samantha
* Mariana Rego as Alison Duncan
*
Bryan Marshall
Bryan Marshall (19 May 1938 – 25 June 2019) was a British actor, with a number of major credits in film and television to his name, in both his native country and Australia.
Early life
Marshall was born in Battersea, south London. He was educ ...
as Malcolm
* Celine O'Leary as Dr. Iona Duncan
*
Elspeth Ballantyne
Elspeth Ballantyne (born 20 April 1939) is an Australian retired actress, who appeared in productions in theatre, television and films over a career that spanned nearly 60 years, a veteran of the industry having started her career as a child ...
as Loopy Laura
* Michael Habib as Tony Delmarco
*
Edmund Pegge
Edmund Pegge (born 1 April 1939) is an Australian actor, who has worked in both Australia and the United Kingdom.
Arriving in Adelaide as a teenager, Pegge completed his education at St Peter's College before graduating from the National Inst ...
as Gordon Harris
Production
It was set and shot in
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest o ...
including
Port Noarlunga South beach (“South Port”). The fishing harbor location was filmed at
Granite Island off
Victor Harbor in South Australia which is about fifty kilometers further south of Port Noarlunga or about one hour's drive from the state's capital city of Adelaide. The visual effects were done by
Rising Sun Pictures.
References
External links
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''Selkie''at Urban Cinefile
2000 films
Australian fantasy films
2000s English-language films
Films based on Celtic mythology
Films directed by Donald Crombie
Films shot in Adelaide
Films shot in South Australia
Films set in South Australia
2000s Australian films
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