The forthcoming, subversive documentary,  OCCUPY CANNES, on how the independents compete with the mega-conglomerates at the Cannes Film Festival, is now in pre-production and Troma’s preliminary schedule for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival  is now available. This announcement comes in the last week of Troma’s  well-publicized indiegogo.com campaign for OCCUPY CANNES which was just featured in TIME Magazine’s online version time.com. Read more…

“Vampire movies have never really been my cup of tea. In some way I find them to be something of a starting ground and an area that rarely adds anything new to its age-old formula.  For some reason they just don’t do anything for me. They are like elevator music and I’m more a punk rock, black metal kind of guy. I like it gritty and harsh. I don’t want horror fluffy and gentle and pansy. So when it comes to vampires I want the cool kind, the kind that portrays the vampires as outcasts,…” Read MORE

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“Your movie PURGE – in a few words, what is it about?

The rediscovery of emotions like love and caring in a world where such things are meant to have been eradicated.

Basic question: Why make your lead character a sex-worker?

Sex work – and the depravity of warped sexual desires – goes to the very core of the problem with this society: that people are no longer meant to love or care for each other.”  Read MORE.

“In place of traditional sources of financing, independent artists are increasingly turning to websites such as Kickstarter and ArtistShare, which allow artists to appeal directly to fans to donate funding for specific projects.

Troma is attempting to raise $50,000 through Indiegogo, to cover the costs of travel, filming and post-production of the documentary, which will depict Troma’s efforts to premier Return of Nuke’Em High Vol. 1 & 2 at Cannes Film Festival amid a sea of top-dollar film corporations and camera-hungry celebrities.” Read MORE

“For one thing, they wouldn’t ask their fans to pay for a full-fledged Troma movie, which can run to about a half a million dollars (Return to Nuke ‘Em High, which will be released in two volumes, cost about $800,000, still teensy-tiny by Hollywood standards). A documentary shot on digital is relatively cheap, and Occupy Cannes exists to prove a point, not to make money, the latter of which is what Troma…”

Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/02/27/the-toxic-investor-a-legendary-indie-film-company-turns-to-crowdfunding/#ixzz2M7cBPHSO

For $250, we’re offering Lloyd’s crew badge from Return to Nuke ’em High.  Click HERE for details.