FROOOM!: “Wicked Cell Phones” at the MEET Film Festival in Rome

Written by on 2025-01-31

The film Wicked Cell Phones, created during the Frooom! film workshop, has been selected for the MEET Film Festival in Rome, which will take place from April 1 to May 31, 2025.
The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness of the connections between culture, education, training, and cinema, and to become an innovative environment where schools, institutions, associations, and independent filmmakers can meet, discuss, and exchange audiovisual productions inspired by educational themes.

Wicked Cell Phones was filmed in Zagreb during the Frooom! film workshop in 2023. It tells the story of a class whose wicked cell phones take them into a world of violence from which they must escape. The film was created under the mentorship of young actress Lucija Alfier and cinematographer Matej Beluhan, who have been collaborating with the Shadow Casters for several years, both on Frooom! and other projects.

Film creators: Lovro Ivanišević, Ida Kralj, Janko Milasinčić, Tarin Martinović, Viktor Rasol, Vid Klisurić, Agata Bučić Grabić, Rubi Toma Matković

Actors: Lovro Ivanišević, Ida Kralj, Janko Milasinčić, Tarin Martinović, Viktor Rasol, Vid Klisurić, Agata Bučić Grabić, Rubi Toma Matković, Relja Borović, Pavle Perković, Lucija Alfier

Mentors: Lucija Alfier, Matej Beluhan

So far, “Wicked Cell Phones” has won the FIFES Comedy Film Festival award in Luka, Croatia (2024) and was selected for the competitive program of the 62nd Croatian Children’s Film Festival in Varaždin, Croatia (2024).

Frooom! film school was developed in 2011 by the multimedia artistic collective Shadow Casters, a non-governmental organization, artistic and production platform from Zagreb, which has been operating since 2001. Today, Frooom! is held in more than 12 cities across Croatia. The main focus of Shadow Casters revolves around various forms of education, cultural exchange, production, and advocacy, particularly in the independent cultural sector, connecting new and innovative cultural and artistic practices. Key activities range from film production, video art, theater performances, urban intermedia projects, activism, to education and training for different target groups, as well as collaborative artistic activities at both the national and international levels.





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