FROGS: The Movie

Rebellious Nukka has always dreamed of getting out of her provincial bog and traveling the world, but when she's the only member of her community to emerge after the great thaw, she finds herself on a journey more terrifying and thrilling than she could ever have imagined

  • Jessica Mei Gershen
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Number of Pages:
    121
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 1st Place Cannes Indie Filmmakers Pitchfest
    Virtual
    June 24, 2020
    First Place Pitch
  • Semi-Finalist Santa Barbara International Screenplay Award
  • Best Unproduced Screenplay Los Angeles Animation Festival
    Los Angeles, CA
    December 12, 2022
    Best Unproduced Screenplay
Writer Biography - Jessica Mei Gershen

Jessica Mei Gershen wrote her first novel
when she was 7 years old. It was 28 pages long..

12 years ago, Jessica and her late father were walking along
the edge of a Vermont pond. He told her about how
Wood frogs burrow beneath the lakes before winter,
freeze, and then thaw come spring. The idea
for FROGS: The Movie was born.

When her father passed suddenly in a scuba diving accident, Jessica knew this project must be written. Shortly after, she began researching frog species across the globe.

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Writer Statement

Jessica Mei Gershen is a screenwriter, a producer, a script supervisor, and a director. In early adulthood, she put her career on hold and worked odd jobs, barely making ends meet, in order to raise her now 21 yo daughter on her own. Now, it's her time to shine. Jessica has climbed very far in a short time. She will not stop until her films are on the big screen.