Selkie

A teenaged lad tries to come to terms with the fact that he is “Selkie” — a seal-human hybrid — in this Australian family movie. Jamie Duncan (Shimon Moore) moves with his marine-scientist mother Iona (Celine O’Leary) to Jackson Island. Iona heads up a research center on the island, and Jamie soon encounters her dour assistant (Edmund Pegge) and an evil tuna fisherman (Michael Habib). En route to the research center, Jamie hits it off with Samantha (Chelsea Bruland). Their budding puppy love is thrown for a loop when Jamie jumps into the ocean to save Samantha — and turns into a seal. After his grandfather explains his unusual lineage, Jamie resolves to find the secret potion that will make him all human., 16-year-old Jamie Duncan was born a selkie- half-human, half-seal -and whenever he’s in water he transforms. But Jamie doesn’t want to be a selkie, he just wants to be an ordinary boy, and so he seeks the help of Loopy Laura, an old woman who haunts the seafront., When a mother lands a job on a remote desert island, her teenage son is distraught. But he has not spent long at his new seaside home before he realises he possesses ancient powers which enable him to become a seal.