Turkles

Turkles, an environmental mystery comedy is a tale of a group of eighth grade science geeks at the fictitious Camp Loggerhead who team up to solve the mystery of who is stealing turtle eggs. 

The feature-length movie is the result of the work of long-time Palm Beach County filmmaker, Frank Eberling, who teamed up with five motivated producers, actors from the Burt  Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre, crew members from Palm Beach Community College, local high schools, Stars Mission International and assistance from the Loggerhead Marine Life Center in Juno Beach.

Eberling, who has produced about 100 documentaries of Florida PBS stations, conceived of the idea from several of the news stories he shot about Loggerhead egg poaching when he was a television reporter in the 1970s. As a father, he was always looking for entertaining children’s films that would educate and also keep his attention. The result is a script designed to entertain the kids and provide some sound environmental information, while making adult audiences laugh at the silliness and ineptitude of the bad guys.

The significance of the title arose from ten year-old Charlie Schumacher who portrays “Izzy”, a near mute who has only one word of dialogue in the entire film. He can’t pronounce “Turtles,” and it comes out as “TURKLES.”

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