DRAGON GIRL
Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival, 2021
Family
90'
SYNOPSIS
The Dragon Girl is a heart-warming tale about a little orphaned girl who finds and befriends a small baby dragon.
The screenwriter duo behind The Dragon Girl have some of Norway’s bestselling and award-winning films on their merit list. Lars Gudmestad has written films such as Headhunters and The Liverpool Goalie, while Harald Rosenløw Eeg has, among others, penned The King’s Choice and 1,000 Times Good Night.
Director Katarina Launing’s feature debut was the box office hit Magic Silver. In 2018 she directed Battle that was partly shot in the Netherlands and sold to Netflix world wide outside Scandinavia.
PEOPLE
Director
Katarina Launing
Writer
Harald Rosenløw Eeg & Lars Gudmestad
Main cast
Iver Aunbu Sandemose
as Mortimer, Solveig Kloppen as Mortimer's Mom
and Isha Zainab Khan as Sara
Crew
DoP: Trond Tønder
Editor: Anders Bergland
Silje Nordseth
Composer: Arvid Falch
Jan P. Muchow
Michal Novinski
(Co-) Producers
Financiers
Storm Films (NOR), Volya Films (NL), Film Kolektiv (CZ), Nordisk Film Egmont (DK)
Netherlands Film Inventive, Creative Europe, Czech Film Fund, Norsk Filminstituut, Nordisk Film & TV Fond
FESTIVALS
2021 Filmfest Ghent
2021 Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival
2021 Cinekid Film Festival
2021 Kids Kino International Film Festival Warsaw, Winner ECFA Award Best European Feature Film
2021 Giffoni Film Festival Italy, Winner Best Film
2021 Norwegian International Film Festival, Winner Amanda Award Best VFX
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