Frogtown

Five thousand people live in this small town in northern Florida, and every one of them is a dreamer. There are Bigfoot YouTubers with a plan to gain more subscribers, homeowners who feel called by the Lord to keep goats in their yards, and Kathleen, who saw the Frog Prince in the swamp as a little girl and refuses, to this day, to stop believing in it. She wants to make her big dream come true and organize the first-ever Frog Parade in her hometown. While her granddaughter Hope believes every word she says, others view her with a kind of bemused bewilderment. A documentary film crew captures it all—and becomes part of the story itself. Tender, absurd, and idiosyncratic, this is a film that truly loves its subjects, just as Les Blank never ceased to honor the dignity of the people of the South. »Frogtown« explores the spirit of deep-rootedness - a whole culture and dimension of America that is rarely portrayed by those who actually love it. It deals with the anxiety that accompanies dreams and the fear of witnessing their failure. To stay alive means to keep dreaming. And then, suddenly, there is the frog.