When 12-year-old Mia is sent to the mysterious Rotwood Academy, she discovers its astonishing secret: her classmates are real monsters. To survive, Mia must conceal her human identity, but hiding becomes impossible when headmaster Van Vlad plots to transform the people of Primrose into monsters. Joining forces with her new friends, Paprika and Oscar, Mia must stop his plan while finding the courage to embrace the very qualities that make her different.
Director Details
Verena Fels was born in 1980 in Biberach an der Riss, Germany. She studied Media Technology before pursuing Film and Animation at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. Fels has directed several animated short films, including the two-time award-winning Mobile (2010), and wrote and directed the series Kuschelbande (2012–2013), which explores tolerance and friendship. In 2018, she began collaborating with Sandor Jesse on their first animated feature, The Little Raven Sock – Search for the Lost Treasure, which was released theatrically in December 2019.
