Leap Frog Films is an Australian film distributor. The company was founded by David Doepel and Barbara Connell.

History

Leap Frog Films was founded in March 2013. The company changed its name to Demand Film Ltd in 2017. It currently operates in seven countries and has a network of 2,300 cinemas releasing films via a cinema on demand model . The company was founded after Doepel acquired the Spanish animated film

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in 2012. Following this he acquired ''The Sea'' and the Nigerian-British film ''

Half of a Yellow Sun ''Half of a Yellow Sun'' is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by 4th Estate in London, the novel tells the story of the Biafran War through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard. It rec ...

'' at

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. Based on the 2006 novel by

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, ''Half of a Yellow Sun'' released in Australia on 27 March 2014. Leap Frog Films also acquired ''Reaching for the Moon'' starring

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, which it released in 2014. The company has gone on to release over 100 films primarily documentaries (including ''Frackman'', '' Chasing Asylum'', ''Plastic Ocean'', ''Embrace'' for which it was nominated for a ScreenAward for its UK release for Specialist Film Campaign Phil Keoghan's ''Le Ride'' and ''MAMIL'') as well as Rooster Teeth's ''Lazer Team 2'' in Australia and New Zealand.

David Doepel

David Doepel is a producer and documentary filmmaker. He served as a co-producer on the 1998 film Landfall. Doepel has held a number of positions at

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including Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research and Development, Interim CEO of the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination, and Director, Research Institute for Resource Technology. Prior to this, he served in the Western Australian Government as Principal Policy Advisor (Science and the Arts) to the then Premier

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and inaugural Regional Director for the Americas for the Western Australian Trade and Investment Office in

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Filmography

References

External links

* Leap Frog Film

Film distributors of Australia Companies based in Perth, Western Australia {{film-company-stub