Frauke Sandig – Producer / Director
Frozen angels is not a science film. I think it's very different from all the films about designer babies we have seen in television. Because it's really a film about people and their personal stories. People who are involved in this very bizarre and surreal world of reproductive technology in Los Angeles. And I think the film will be sometimes entertaining and very funny. It will also be a critical portrait of American society today because it asks the question, what would happen if people really would have the possibility to design their children from scratch? Would they be all supermodels or would they all be Arnold Swartzenegger's?
There is a radio moderator, Bill Handel, who has the world's biggest agency for surrogate mothers and egg donors. There is an egg donor we've been following for two years. There's a surrogate mother who had a child for a couple who's working for the Mars mission. There's Kappy Rothman, director of the world's biggest sperm bank and also a pioneer in post mortem sperm retrieval. So there's all sorts of fascinating characters. We've not only been following them in their professional life but also in their personal life. I think with the editing process we will try to create a mosaic of the life of these people and life in the city of Los Angeles.
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