Kid Hazard has already signed for theatrical distribution with one of the leading distribution companies in Romania, Forum Film, and it also has an agreement with the cinema network Cinema City, a premiere for an independent domestic film in financing stage.

The crowdfunding on the film’s website starts from raffle tickets of 10 EUR and amounts to 38 EUR donations. A casting call has been recently organised, which together with games, various workshops and music lasted for eight hours.

The campaign aims at securing funding for the production, building a community of supporters for children/ family films, and offering an alternative educational perspective with films at the core of the discussion.

An adventure film for children and families, Kid Hazard follows a 10-year-old boy with an explosive imagination, who wants one thing: to go to summer camp. His plan? Simple (in theory): win school competitions. In reality that’s total chaos, a series of “dangers”, and an unexpected journey.

„I first met Raluca Poenaru in 2019, at a film festival in Munich, and when I got back home I read her books with my children. They loved them, laughed a lot, and I think they were the first to say, very naturally and without any ‘industry’ filter, that this story should become a film for children. That stayed with me. I wanted to produce Kid Hazard because I felt there was something very rare there: a funny, vivid story rooted in the real lives of Romanian children, with the chance to become a shared family memory, the way the classic Romanian children’s films once did for us,” producer Irina Enea told FNE.

Irina Enea’s Baking Films and Adriana Bumbeș’ Ariadna Films are producing. The first sponsors of the film are Danone, PPC, Orange România, Schneider, and the postproduction studio Chainsaw Europe.

The project has been selected and awarded at important international labs such as Transilvania Pitch Stop (Cluj-Napoca), COCOLAB (Cottbus), Cinekid Junior Co-Production Market (Amsterdam), and PLAY Lisabona.

“We are now in an advanced development and financing stage, with the FUNdraising campaign Pericol / Kid Hazard – When a Film Begins with You already launched, and our goal is to shoot in the summer of 2027, with a confirmed cast that includes Medeea Marinescu, Irina-Margareta Nistor, Macanache, Doru Cătănescu, Andrei Miercure, and Iulia Verdeș, alongside the young actors who will be selected through the ongoing children’s casting,” Irina Enea added.

Casting is also in progress for the main character, Kid Hazard.

There have been almost no children films produced in Romania for over 35 years, except for Liviu Mărghidan’s Străjerii (2018) and Străjerii Deltei (2021), both produced by Scharf Film Production, and Paul Negoescu’s Romanian/Bulgarian Atlas of the Universe / Atlasul universului (2026), produced by deFilm, coproduced by Screening Emotions, among others.

Kid Hazard will be Răzvan Marinescu’s debut feature. He is an actor, producer, and TV and short films director with 20 years of experience. He served as acting coach for Atlas of the Universe.

Production Information:

Producers:
Baking Films (Romania)
Ariadna Films (Romania)

Credits:
Director: Răzvan Marinescu
Scriptwriters: Cristian Buje,  Răzvan Marinescu, Irina Enea
DoP: Lulu de Hillerin
Sound: Ștefan Munteanu
Production designers: Iulia and Victor Fulicea
Costume designer: Dana Anghel
Cast (confirmed): Medeea Marinescu, Irina-Margareta Nistor, Macanache, Doru Cătănescu, Andrei Miercure, Iulia Verdeș