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07/25/16

TROMADANCE 2016

The 17th Annual Tromadance Film Festival is happening Friday July 29th & Saturday July 30th in Brooklyn at The Paper Box (17 Meadow St.)! FREE entry!   Facebook Event Page, RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/156074548148355/

Meet Lloyd Kaufman & The Troma Team! Catch four exciting new feature films, including the Drafthouse Films Documentary “Raiders! Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made”.

See 40 award winning live action and animated shorts! With animated work from John Dilworth and Ukinojoe, and a live action exclusive “Portal to Hell”, one of Rowdy Roddy Piper’s last starring roles.

Attend our filmmaking panel, “Getting Your Movie Made in the Age of P.C. Police”! Win TROMAzing raffle prizes from Lomography, Sega, and more!

Experience our legendary after parties on both Friday and Saturday nights, featuring Alan Merrill (original performer and writer of “I Love Rock & Roll”), Tragedy: All Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees, The Cowmen, Monkey Pudding Face, and MooseKnuckle! Action packed! After Parties are a suggested donation of $15. All donations help keep The Tromadance Film Festival completely 100% FREE year after year!
It’s all happening at The Paper Box NYC (17 Meadow St. Brooklyn, NY)!!!
 
Support truly independent art July 29th and 30th! 
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07/25/16

San Diego Comic Con – 2016

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07/25/16

Fantasia Film Festival – Montreal 2016

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07/13/16

Free French Fries at “The TromAmerican Summer Festival of Free French Fries” on Bastille Day!

” If the People Have No Beer Money,
 Let them Eat French Fries!”
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Free French Fries at “The TromAmerican Summer Festival of Free French Fries” on Bastille Day!

Celebrate “Bastille Day” with the Troma Team at Lucky 13 Saloon!
The TROMAmerican Summer 2016
  FESTIVAL OF FREE FRENCH FRIES FOR FRANCE!!!
to Honor “Bastille Day” 
Double-Feature Screening of B.C. Butcher
and Junk Bonds: The Legend of Junkbucket
FRANCOPHILES, FILMS,  FREAKS and FANS
JULY 14TH, 2016 AT LUCKY 13 SALOON, 644 SACKETT ST., BROOKLYN, NY
MOVIE’S OF THE FUTURE!!
 ROCK-N-ROLL!!
GO-GO-GYNO DANCERS!!
LIVE ART!!
NO COVER CHARGE!!!
TIP THE DANCERS! TIP THE BARTENDERS!
TROMAmerican Summer 2016
Festival of Free French Fries!!
CONFIRMED
Appearance by 19 Year Old Kansas Bowling with a Screening of her film, B.C. Butcher
along with screening of
Junk Bonds: The Return of Junkbucket,
directed by Stephen Lange
Thursday, July 14th, 2016
Lucky 13 Saloon
644 Sackett Street
Brooklyn, NY

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07/12/16

TROMA ENTERTAINMENT Announces “The Best of TROMAnimation”

Official Animated Selections Announced for 17th Annual TromaDance Film Festival

 Friday, July 29th and Saturday, July 30th at
 17 Meadow St.  Brooklyn, NY 11206
The Official Selections in Animation for the 17th Annual TromaDance,  which will be held at the Paper Box Theatre in Brooklyn, NY, have been confirmed, it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman.
work by Ukino Joe
The selections were drawn from the pool of submissions considered for April 30th’s First Annual TROMAnimation Festival, an event held at Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn on April 30th, 2016.  The new spawn of TromaDance opened its doors those artists who specialize in animation of all kinds, from hand drawn to 3-D and digital and contributors were able to showcase their work among peers and accomplished panelists, like Ukino Joe and Maxwell Atoms.  The curators of The 1st Annual TROMAnimation Festival are already working to secure a second annual all-ages event for 2017.

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07/12/16

TromaDance After Party – Tragedy: An All Metal Tribute to the Bee-Gees and The Alan Merrill Band

Saturday, July 30th 2016
 Co-Headlining Performers
for the World Famous TromaDance AfterParty!
THE WORLD FAMOUS TROMADANCE AFTERPARTY!
Saturday, July 30th, 10:00 PM at  
    17 Meadow St.  Brooklyn, NY 11206
Suggested Donation of $15
The World Famous TromaDance AfterParty will be co-headlined by musical guests“Tragedy: The All Metal Tribute to the Bee-Gees” and songwriter and rock-n-roll legend Alan Merrill, it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman.
The TromaDance AfterParty has a longtime reputation for being a wild, off-the-wall shit-disturbing bash to top-off the Film Festival’s weekend of screenings, panels and guest appearances, the Film Festival weekend is free for attendees and the afterparty has a suggested donation of $15 to help raise money to support the event. This year the party is going to go where no metalhead has dared go before, cross-dressing cross-over disco/metal Bee-Gee’s tribute “Tragedy”.  To see a viral video from “Tragedy” click the link here!

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07/7/16

Director Kansas Bowling to Appear Thursday, July 14th 2016 to Introduce NYC Premiere of B.C. Butcher

TROMAmerican Summer 2016 
 ~ ~FESTIVAL OF FREE!!!!~~
at Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn
644 Sackett Street
Brooklyn, NY
Doors at 8:00 PM
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19 year old Kansas Bowling will her NYC Premiere of B.C. Butcher  on Thursday, July 14 2016
 at Lucky 13 Saloon
MOVIE’S OF THE FUTURE!!
 ROCK-N-ROLL!!
GO-GO-GYNO DANCERS!!
LIVE ART!!
NO COVER CHARGE!!!
TIP THE DANCERS! TIP THE BARTENDERS!
Bastille Day Celebration for
~FESTIVAL OF FREE!!~
CONFIRMED
Appearance by Kansas Bowling

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06/30/16

The 17th Annual TromaDance Announces Feature Length Official Selections

TROMA ENTERTAINMENT
 Announces
Official Feature Length Selections
for
17th Annual TromaDance Film Festival 
Friday, July 29th and Saturday, July 30th at
17 Meadow St.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
The Official Feature Length Selections for the 17th Annual TromaDance, which will be held at the Paper Box Theatre in Brooklyn, NY, have been confirmed, it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman, prexy of Troma Entertainment and creator of The Toxic Avenger.
Yesterday, June 28th 2016,  Troma Entertainment made public The 17th Annual TromaDance Short Movie Official Selections. Today’s highly anticipated announcement of the four titles curated by NYC’s Troma Team demonstrate in some cinematic form the dedication to original, historical and socially significant themes, images and techniques and represent ingenuity in genre by skirting the experimental through ambitious and dedicated pursuit in documentary and exploiting the potential of conventional narrative. These selections are:
THE 17th ANNUAL TROMADANCE 
FILM FESTIVAL
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS 2016
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Feature-Length Movies
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne /directed by Adrian Tofei/Romania
(english). 2015. 1 h 27 min.
A story of a young man in Romania who goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film. 
Banjo /directed by Liam Regan /UK. 2015. 1 h 22 min.
British comedy-fantasy Banjo, directed by Liam Regan. follows the developing mania of a young man as he is manipulated by his imaginary friend to exact revenge on his tormenting co-workers.
Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Film Ever Made/directed by Eric  Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen/USA . 2016. 1 hr 46 min.
Childhood friends Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb reunite 25 years later to shoot the final scene of their shot-for-shot remake of Steven Spielberg’s classic film Raiders of the Lost Ark. 
Night of Something Strange directed by Jonathan Straiton/USA 2016. 
Teenage friends out for beach week get unexpget unexpectedly detoured to an isolated motel where a deadly STD virus now runs rampant, turning those infected into “the living dead” .
Upcoming T.B.A. for The 17th Annual TromaDance Film Festival 2016 are the talent lineups for the World Famous TromaDance AfterParty!!!
Congratulations to all those filmmakers selected to be in the 17th Annual TromaDance Film Festival, hosted at The Paper Box Theatre in Brooklyn on July 29th and 30th, 2016!

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06/29/16

The 17th Annual TromaDance Official Short Movie Selections Announcement!

TROMA ENTERTAINMENT
 Announces
Official Short Movie Selections
for
17th Annual TromaDance Film Festival 
Friday, July 29th and Saturday, July 30th at
17 Meadow St.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
The Official Short Movie Selections for the 17th Annual TromaDance, which will be held at the Paper Box Theatre in Brooklyn, NY, have been confirmed, it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman.
TromaDance is the first film festival wholeheartedly devoted to independent filmmaking and also one which champions contributing artists, producers and directors internationally from all genres of cinema without discrimination. Unlike every other film festival, TromaDance does not charge filmmakers to submit their films. Entrance to The Paper Box Theatre on Friday July 29th and Saturday July 30th is free to all.

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06/20/16

Troma Entertainment Acquires Alberto Genovese’s Sick Sock Monsters from Outer Space

Original Title~ Dolcezza Extrema

Poster Design for Sick Sock Monsters from Outer Space by Alvaro Galvan
NYC’s  Troma Entertainment  Confirms Official U.S. Premiere of Alberto Genovese’s
 Italian Science-Fiction/Fantasy Sock-Puppet Movie,
Sick Sock Monsters from Outer Space 
(originally Dolcezza Extrema)
to be released Friday, July 1. 2016
Socks, Drugs and Rock-N-Roll!  Sick Sock Monsters from Outer Space, a film by Alberto Genovese,  has been acquired by Troma Entertainment and is the exclusive Premiere Movie release from Troma for July’s new content on Troma Now (available a t  watch.troma.com  ) , the independent movie studio’s video-streaming-on-demand-service that launched this year ,  it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman.
Genovese’s movie takes place in an unspecified year from the future. Captain Pixws and his crew of space pirate sock puppets are forced to delivery tanning beds to every corner of the universe as their star-ship travels through intergalactic space.
he award-winning  Sick Sock Monsters from Outer Spacehas the visual light and language associated nowadays with pairing psychedelic drugs and Electronic Dance Music, an experience usually available only to those willing to alter their neural mapping.
The dynamic audio visual forces that operate within the galaxies, spacecrafts and from the critters that shuttle through Genovese’s movie is no doubt a reflection of the filmmakersbella figura approach to craftsmanship and ingenuity in theSick Sock Monsters production. Genovese’s unexpected choice to use 35 mm film to shoot the movie, much of which depended on the use of green screens behind the sock puppet characters and ultimate incorporation of extensive and skillfully crafted CGI environments and special effects, a thought provoking exploration into the possibilities of new forms in movie making through a mixed-media approach.
Sick Sock Monsters from Outer Space was an Official Selection in 2015 for Italy’s Fanta-Festival, Switzerland’s Indie Film Festival and the Lumiere Film Fesitval as well as an Official Selection for the 2016 London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film.

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