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
Wrinkles at
Cannes Film Festival in 2012. 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. Leap Frog Films also acquired
Reaching for the Moon starring
Miranda Otto, 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==