Greetings from Tromaville! Troma Entertainment President and Creator of the Toxic Avenger Lloyd Kaufman will teach a Make Your Damn Movie Master Class on June 4th in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at the renowned Cine Olido! From May 31st to June 5th, Cine Olido will play a week-long retrospective of Troma films, including such classics as “The Toxic Avenger,” “Class of Nuke ‘Em High,” “Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead,” “Tromeo and Juliet,” “Cannibal! The Musical” and “Terror Firmer.”
Details on the class can be found here:
Established in 1974 by Yale friends Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, Troma Entertainment is one of the longest running independent movie studios in United States’ history and one of the best-known names in the industry. World famous for movie classics like Kaufman’s The Toxic Avenger, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, Class of Nuke’em High, Mother’s Day, and Tromeo and Juliet, Troma’s seminal films are now being remade as big budget mainstream productions by the likes of Brett Ratner, Richard Saperstein, Akiva Goldsman, and Steven Pink. Among today’s stars whose early work can be found in Troma’s 800+ film library are Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Jenna Fischer, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Costner, Fergie, Vincent D’Onofrio and Samuel L. Jackson.
Lloyd Kaufman’s video message about the class can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyjeYIGH0Hc
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