Edinburgh Film Festival 2013: New Megan Boyd film explores life of 'eccentric master of flies' and friend of Prince Charles It is even suggested the Prince or another "toff" may have tried to help her get an operation on her eyes to stop her going blind at the end of her life, though in the end it proved to be impossible. But despite being a master of her craft and friend of Royalty, the details of Megan Boyd's life remain a mystery. Eric Steel, an American filmmaker who had never been to Scotland, was intrigued by the 2001 New York Times obituary of the "eccentric master of flies" who could not bring herself to go fishing. Ten years later he travelled to Boyd's abandoned cottage in Brora and interviewed her friends. The result is a "fairytale" about fishing, landscape, love, loneliness and a Prince. Kiss the Water, that will premier at Edinburgh Film Festival on June 23 and June 25, lets fishermen tell stories about the ones they caught and the ones that go away. Ole Birkeland The landscape is always in the background moving from the shimmering midsummer skies of Sutherland to long dark nights. At the centre is a woman who cut her own hair and "looked like a man" but is described with real affection by all who knew her. A woman who loved to dance but never married. Who spent her whole life tying flies but could not bear the idea of catching and killing a fish. It is clear Boyd loved her work and one message in the film is the purity of doing one thing well. Other than that the film revels in the mixed metaphors of fishing. The "black magic" of tying a fly so pretty that a fish that has migrated thousands of miles across the ocean but is not feeding will snap it up. The idea of making a hook beautiful enough to catch the thing you love - if you dare to use it. The hours spent standing on bank waiting for a fish or sitting at a window tying a fly and where the mind wanders. You can't help wonder what went on in Boyd's head. The lovely thing about this film is you never quite know. Beautiful stop start animations of oil paintings by Em Cooper create a number of possible dreamworlds that may or may not be Boyd's imagination, Cooper's, Steel's or yours. Steel, director of the acclaimed 2006 documentary The Bridge, seems comfortable letting the metaphors swirl around the audience's heads like the moving animations. Ultimately he says it is a "love story." All fairy tales are love stories. I do not think you get what you wish for. See a clip of the film here