Film in Development

In 1492 the light of civilisation went out over Europe, but a little of it remained offshore, waiting to make its peace.


Film Synopsis:

  • Four-quadrant family entertainment:
  • A Historical Fantasy
  • Mystery, Romance, with with a twist
  • Exceptional landscapes
Katie is indignant when her parents start a business in a hotel in a remote Spanish fishing village. The villagers are wrathful about the new hotel, its workers, and incomers like her family. They believe there intrusion will upset their time immemorial rapport with a pod of dolphins in the bay.

Katie has boys on her mind – she misses London. By chance, she finds a strange white dolphin stranded on the beach. Surprisingly, it requests her to kiss it! When she does, it turns into a seventeen-year-old boy called Naji. For her it is love at first sight. He is the most attractive boy she has ever met. However, Naji is not quite what she expected  – he has amnesia – then starts remembering his traumatic past  life in the village.

Soon Alvaro the local village bully and arsonist ups the tension. He protects the village like his father  by opposing any change that might threaten the dolphin’s contentment. As strangers - the couple are in peril - especially when Naji dresses in Alvaro’s clothes. Naji takes refuge at Katie’s home. It causes a comedic upset - now he is dressed in Katie’s tracksuit.

Katie has a mission is to win the boy of her dreams. All Naji desires is to save the dolphins. This sets in motion a gripping series of hair-raising events that unravel the villager’s’ guilt ridden past and create intolerable problems for anyone associated with Katie.


 "When Katie lands in Spain she receives a net full trouble from the local villagers. Remember: never kiss a dolphin."

A time lost Village



A story set in a romantic fishing village in Andalusia. A place forgotten the way the villagers wish it to stay.


Naji the Merboy




Naji's world is so different. It has been written on a different page and a different script.


Discovering who he is and why the village is so strange only Naji discovers as he recovers from amnesia. 



Katie





She misses London life, vitality and finds solace in pursuing the boy of her dreams. She forgets the modern world and becomes entangled in the dangers of village politics and identity.
 
Perhaps it is not so bad after all....
 

   
The story is based on the book Children from the Sea published by Nightingale Imprint of Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie, Cambridge, England.
Copies may still be available from Amazon


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