Forest Creatures
view in croatian- 2010
- 120'
- 35 mm
- color
- action, satire
- debut feature | croatian, dutch, pidgin croatian
- Orig. Title: Šuma summarum
Rinus, the new Dutch boss of a Croatian marketing agency, organizes a weekend of white-water rafting and paintballing for his employees. The teambuilding exercise starts to go wrong on the very first day, when a tragic incident casts a shadow over their rafting trip. Next day, events escalate further during a paintball battle, as it dawns on the group that a local family is trying to kill them. As night falls, it becomes clear that the lives of the survivors will never be the same again.
- Director
- Ivan-Goran Vitez
- Screenplay
- Ivan-Goran Vitez
- Cinematography
- Tamara Cesarec
- Editing
- Mato Ilijić
- Production Design
- Mario Ivezić
- Costume Design
- Zorana Meić
- Music
- Hrvoje Štefotić
- Sound Design
- Dubravka Premar
- Cast
- Vilim Matula, Hana Hegedušić, Ljubiša Savanović, Nataša Dangubić
- Producer
- Ankica Jurić Tilić
- Production
- Kinorama
- Co-producer
- Diego Zanco
- Co-production
- Propeler Film (SI)
Ivan-Goran Vitez (1975) is best known as the director of a provocative short film The Death of the Seals (2000) and The Final Sacrament (2005) which won an award at Zagreb Film Festival in 2005, and as the director of a controversial and never publicly screened documentary Small Hands (2001), which took a candid look at the national film festival in Pula. Forest Creatures is his debut feature.
