Upside-Down Magic’s Suzanne Farwell & Susan Cartsonis

TV Kids spoke to Suzanne Farwell and Susan Cartsonis, executive producers of Upside-Down Magic, via video conference about bringing The New York Times best-selling children’s book of the same name from page to screen.

The Disney Channel Original Movie Upside-Down Magic is an enchanted fantasy tale about 13-year-old Nory Boxwood Horace, who discovers that she can flux into animals and her best friend Reina Carvajal can manipulate flames. Together, they enter the Sage Academy for Magical Studies. Reina’s expert ability to harness the power of fire lands her at the top of her class of “Flares,” but Nory’s wonky magic and proclivity for turning into a “Dritten”—a half-kitten, half-dragon—lands her in a class for those with upside-down magic, otherwise known as UDM. While Headmaster Knightslinger believes the UDM’s unconventional powers leave them vulnerable to dangerous and evil “shadow magic,” Nory and her fellow UDM classmates set out to prove that upside-down magic beats right-side up.

The movie made its official debut on July 31, and Upside-Down Magic continues to air on Disney Channel and is available in the DisneyNOW app.