"The Water Clock" Tide is Rising: Cli-Fi Screenplay Earns Multiple Prestigious Accolades

Sheil Seclearr's gripping climate fiction feature film screenplay, The Water Clock, is making waves on the international film festival circuit, securing Official Selection status at three prestigious events. 

The International Indie Film and Screenplay Festival (IIFSF): The Water Clock achieved Finalist status and was nominated for Best Feature Film Screenplay at this Paris-based festival. Seclearr will attend the black-tie award gala in Vienna, Austria, on December 4, 2025, where winners will be announced. 

LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival: This festival in Rehoboth Beach, DE, has recognized The Water Clock as an Official Selection. The screenplay now competes for the top prizes, including submission to Polaris Pictures, a film finance company. 

Los Angeles based FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) championing female filmmakers has just announced The Water Clock as their Award Winner, garnering several prizes that will help promote the project.

The Water Clock is a timely and thought-provoking Cli-Fi thriller that follows a non-binary protagonist who is a reluctant hero seeking a scientist to educate the world about the powers of a family relic, the Water Clock. It's a stone bowl with mysterious powers including a space/time-slip that suddenly reveals a climate crisis no one saw coming. The question emerges: If water is alive, is it communicating?

I'm thrilled that The Water Clock resonates with global audiences. It's a water story where we see the power of flow. Like the film’s hero, I see a world depleting our precious and unique water resources, and I hope it inspires conversations and activism on their behalf. ~Sheil Seclearr

The Water Clock is in development and will be filmed in New Mexico. Producers include Seclearr, Carey Rose O’Connell (AFMI Productions and producer of marketing and distribution), and Lorraine Montez (Enchanted Rain Films and producer).

CONTACT: Producer Lorraine Montez 206-200-3364 lorraine@enchantedrainfilms.com

About Writer Sheil Seclearr: An optioned and paid screenwriter, Seclearr’s production credits include: Co-Producer for Return to Rainy Mountain (PBS, 2017), Associate Producer for 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Story (2013), and Rumi Returning (PBS, 2007). She assisted Jill Momaday’s archival role for PBS American Masters’ N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear (PBS 2019) and has expertise in online community building, social media, and Impact Production.

About The Water Clock: This film is modern science that meets ancient wisdom. Orinday is a visionary recluse living on the outskirts of society, convinced that humanity is in a race to devour all of Earth’s resources. An abused child adopted at an early age; Orinday’s Native American mother understands their gender-fluid connection to nature. She raises Orinday to protect and nurture her family’s ancient relic, the Water Clock. 

In the opening, Orinday wakes in a panic, sure that the old bowl was called into service for the world. When Orinday seeks out a famous water scientist to validate the mysterious stone bowl, she calls the relic primitive. Orinday knows that the crystal-clear language of water mirrors Quantum Physics, so he refuses to give up and launches an adventure that will impact the future of the planet. In an extraordinary climax, while trapped in an underground aquifer, the scientist finally realizes Orinday’s Water Clock proves her recent findings about the “fourth phase of water.” Water is alive, and communicating new information about life on earth. It's time to listen.

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CONTACT: Producer Lorraine Montez 206-200-3364 lorraine@enchantedrainfilms.com