Skara - The Film

Aim

Raising (£100,000) to prepare for funding in the region of £10,000,000 for Skara The Epic Film, set in Orkney’s Golden Neolithic Age.

Skara Film Synopsis. But the book: www.skarabooks.com

THE FIRST WAVE IN A ‘THRILLOGY’ OF FIVE.

Set in Orkney’s remarkable Golden Neolithic era

Chief Partan’s infant Grand-Daughter, Shala communes with ancient Orkney’s enigmatic redshanks on her village’s shores. She hears their thoughts and heeds their moods.

Learning her Clan’s legends in the precincts of their Ancestor Tomb, her future is subliminally set. Destined to save the Islands bloodlines from inbreeding, she grows up with a tangle of inner thoughts and dreams relating to migrating geese.

By saving the Old Sage, Wrasse, from drowning and finding her predictions relentlessly coming true, she and Wrasse embark on their life-discovering pilgrimage.

Oiwa (pronounced Wha), young native of ancient Canada grows to near maturity. In their Sweat Lodge His father, North Star, allows him right of passage with his brothers to The Whale Geese, their totem birds. Their great adventure sees intense pleasures and terrible tragedies. These traumas leave Oiwa utterly mute.

Unknowingly following his ancestor, Weir, to strange lands, Oiwa realises his awesome destiny. Driven by visions in the deep caverns of Gunnal’s Gulch, he continues his quest.

Shala faces up to her inner self, refuses to submit to the women’s initiation rites at the legendary House of Croo. Instead she bravely saves herself for the Icon of her extraordinary predictions… Oiwa.

THE EPIC CONTINUES.

Chelsea Grant, Kiwi Film House and SKARA

“I’m incredibly excited to have optioned the amazing story of Skara. Having such depth and emotion, it really takes the reader back in time... to the Neolithic era. It’s so ruthless but also so magical. I’m so looking forward to turn this book into a visual feast!” - Chelsea

Kiwi Film House loves working on history and culture projects. Titiro was the first Film House movie, showcasing the beauty of the ancient  New Zealand Maori. It took the viewer back to a time long forgotten, where the Gods still roamed the earth. It was shot in the New Zealand wilderness, something award winning producer, Chelsea Grant, loves to do: Engaging gorgeous landscapes, wild environments and times long forgotten.

Skara is set in ancient Neolithic times, something very important and crucial to the beauty of the story, akin to the film series Vikings. Chelsea can’t wait to film some of Scotland’s incredible beauty, especially the parts in Orkney where much of the gripping film is set.

I would be delighted to introduce  fresh faces to Orkney. Bringing the film crew and hiring local talent, including school children, to work on Skara, will give extremely positive influences to the Island folk. 

At the age of two, when Chelsea was in pre-school, she first stepped  on to a film set; it was George Lucas’s Willow!

This project closed unsuccessfully on 16th March 2018