Frog

BY CECILIA TORQUATO

PRODUCTION INFO
Title: Frog
Original Title: Grodan
Format: Short
Language: Swedish
Duration: 7 minutes
Release: 2008

CREW
Director: Cecilia Torquato
Screenwriter: Cecilia Torquato
DOP: Sophia Olsson
Editor: Cecilia Torquato
Producers: Annika Hellström / Cinenic Film

CAST
Ida Jönsson
Ola Hedén

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2011 ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival, Canada
2011 Suchitra School of Cinema and Dramatic Arts, India
2011 International Children’s Film Carnival 2011, Hong Kong
2011 San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival, USA
2010 Children’s Film Festival Seattle, USA
2010 BAMKids, USA
2010 REDCAT, USA
2010 Cineffable Paris Festival, France
2010 Seoul International Family Film Festival, South Korea
2009 Cairo International Film Festival for Children, Egypt
2009 ViewFinders International Film Festival for Youth, Canada
2009 Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival for Kids, USA
2009 Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival, Norway
2009 Maremetraggio – Int short film festival, Italy
2009 Festival Competition at International Film Festival for Children GALICIA, Polen
2009 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, USA
2009 Women in Direction – International Film Festival Cuenca, Spain
2008 KIDZ section of the Giffoni Film Festival, Italy
2008 BUSTER, Denmark
2008 Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Germany
2008 BUFF, Sweden
2008 Nueva Mirada, Argentina

Frog

SYNOPSIS
A little girl wants to take a roll of the prince, instead of the princess, in a theatre piece at school. She is not allowed to do that by her teacher … then. She “transforms” herself into a frog.- ” If I can’t be a prince, I’ll be a frog”