DEAD GROUND
SPONSORSHIP DEDUCTED FROM THE PROFIT TAX YOU ALREADY OWE.
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BACK IN FOR
A BOY HE
ALREADY LOST.
At night, a wounded soldier searches a bombed-out building for a boy he told to wait for him. A comrade whose face we never see answers him over the radio, and we watch almost the whole night through that comrade’s eyes. The voice knows the way, and it knows the boy. Then a mirror shows who is really in the room.
Format
Live-action short, about 15 minutes, in English with Romanian subtitles. Written and directed by Bogdan Mărginean.
Shooting
May 3–7, 2027, Cluj-Napoca. Five days: four inside one abandoned industrial building, one exterior on its access road.
Status
Screenplay finished, version 5.8. Visual identity finished. The lead is confirmed through filmed auditions.
What's next
Financing, then pre-production from March 1 to April 30, 2027. That is where you come in.
A WAR FILM
WITH NO WAR
IN IT.
Almost the whole film is one first-person look: the audience is not watching a soldier, it is being spoken to, as the second person in the room. No battle and no enemy. The war stays outside the frame, and the one explosion comes in a single flashback. That is what a festival programmer remembers from a line-up — and what makes the film cheap to produce and expensive-looking.
Your logo sits in the end credits of every copy of the film, permanently — at every screening, on every platform, in every festival archive.
FILMS THAT
GET FINISHED.
The Transylvania Culture Foundation and KSM Production work together on films that reach an audience, not only a jury. A film that starts gets finished and delivered, and the contracts, reporting and closing documents go through a structure that has done them before.
Dosarele Orașului Alb
Feature film, theatrical release, national distribution.
Echoes
Short thriller (2026), co-produced by the Transylvania Culture Foundation and KSM Production, now in festival submissions.
Eduard Trică — in view for the lead
The lead of Echoes. The Soldier speaks almost the whole film directly into the lens; casting is confirmed through filmed auditions. IMDb nm9083361.
Bogdan Mărginean — writer and director
Executive producer on The Handler and Dosarele Orașului Alb. Dead Ground is his directing debut. Cinematography by Paul Pleșa.
THREE TIERS.
WRITTEN OUT
EXACTLY.
Supporter — 1.000 €
Mention in the end credits. Logo on the film's online materials. Two invitations to the launch screening.
Partner — 3.000 €
All of the above, plus logo in the end credits and on the poster. Mention in press releases. Four invitations. Production stills for your own communication.
Main partner — 6.000 €
All of the above, plus lead position in the credits and on the poster, a mention at every public screening, presence at the launch, and the right to use the film and its materials in your own communication, within agreed limits.
Amounts can be combined. Sponsorship in goods or services — equipment, transport, space, catering — is valued at market rate and enters the same tiers.
TAX YOU
REDIRECT,
NOT MONEY
YOU SPEND.
For companies paying profit tax in Romania, sponsorship is not an expense. The amount is deducted directly from the profit tax owed, up to the lower of 0,75% of turnover and 20% of the tax owed. In other words: the same money, a different recipient.
Contract
Signed with Fundația de Cultură Transilvania (Asociația IURA Film) — listed in the Registry of non-profit entities, the legal condition for the deduction — with the tier and the deliverables written into it.
Transfer
The amount is transferred to the association's account.
Deduction
Accounting deducts it from the profit tax. If the tax is already paid, the redirection is made with form 177.
File at the end
Contract, proof of the credit mention, communication materials and the film's festival report.
Micro-enterprises no longer have this benefit since 2024 — for them sponsorship remains an ordinary expense.
BEFORE THE
FIRST DAY
OF SHOOTING.
The fiscal year
The benefit is computed per financial year. A sponsorship decided too late loses its advantage, however good the intention was.
The festival calendar
Submission deadlines are fixed. A one-month delay in production moves the film a full year down the route.
Three steps
A twenty-minute conversation · the contract and deliverables for the chosen tier · signature and transfer. You are in the film before the first shooting day, on May 3, 2027.
DEAD GROUND · SHORT FILM · MAY 2027 · FCT-DG-PD-001