Troma Entertainment is proud to announce that Lloyd Kaufman, creator of The Toxic Avenger and President of Troma Entertainment, clad in a fetching tutu, graces the cover of this week’s Village Voice, which features an in-depth look at Lloyd’s entire career of over 40 years of filmmaking.
Legendary filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman has written, directed or produced more than 50 movies, including four Toxic Avengers, three Class of Nuke’Em Highs, Tromeo & Juliet, Poultrygeist and Terror Firmer. He has been an honored guest at international film festivals around the world, and has received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Fantasy Film Festival of Amsterdam, Sitges Film Festival, & Brussels Festival of Fantasy among others. In 1999 he founded the TromaDance Film Festival in Park City, Utah during Sundance. TromaDance is a festival with no entry fee to submit films and no admission charged to audience members. Kaufman was the elected Chairman of the Independent Film & Television Alliance, a trade organization composed of 200 member companies; the published author of an acclaimed series of books on independent filmmaking; and an actor with cameos in several films including Orgazmo and Super. He also teaches a successful series of Master Classes at universities like Oxford and Yale and other institutions, and has created a television series for England’s Channel 4.
