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.[1] It currently operates in seven countries and has a network of 2,300 cinemas releasing films via a cinema on demand model .[2]
The company was founded after Doepel acquired the Spanish animated film Wrinkles at Cannes Film Festival in 2012.[3] Following this he acquired The Sea and the Nigerian-British film Half of a Yellow Sun at Toronto International Film Festival. Based on the 2006 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun released in Australia on 27 March 2014.[4][5]