Rosanna, Jaris and the Otherworld

Children spend a lot of time thinking about big things, such as life and death. They strive for content that challenges their boundaries and feels "grown up". They also want to see stories that have suspense, humor and entertainment, and an interesting protagonist.

In the cinematic realization we are looking for a child's perspective that brings great challenges. The adult world, the reality of illness and the colorful, playful children's world: two worlds, interwoven through a child's gaze. Our images are poetic and realistic with a pinch of exaggeration. We look for aesthetic images, as well as witty perspectives and unagitated, intimate moments. The colorfulness of Rosanna's world deliberately breaks up the subject matter and creates an exaggerated reality through playful details – e.g., when feathers spray out of Chicken Eye’s ears as soon as he gets nervous. The lighting design is bright. In the adult world, we work with natural-looking light, in the childlike world, we work e.g. with backlighting for Rosanna's memories with Jaris on the wasteland, creating a mystical atmosphere.

I am a POC. When I was a child, there weren’t any role models in children's films who looked like me. In Rosanna's family, I want to portray diversity as normality. Rosanna is a character with the potential to be a role model. She demands that adults communicate with her as equal and wants them to accompany her in her feelings. With her playfulness she insists that life is a celebration despite everything.