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Lloyd Kaufman
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Director, Producer, Co-producer, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Executive Producer, Actor, Associate Producer Biography:"Lloyd Kaufman" is many things: producer, director, screenwriter, editor, composer, actor, and, above all, a renegade fighting against the further conglomeration and homogenization of Hollywood. "Kaufman" is president and co-founder of Troma Entertainment, one of the last bastions of independent, low-budget exploitation films, the kind that bear titles such as "Class of Nuke 'Em High" (1986) and "Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator" (1989). Often graphically violent, gory, sophomoric, deliberately un-PC, and seemingly aimed at audiences comprised of certain kinds of teenaged boys, Troma films are also free-spirited and often filmed with their tongues lodged firmly in their cheeks.
"Kaufman" entered the film business after studying filmmaking. While in school, he started making low-budget films. He and long-time business partner "Michael Herz" launched Troma as a distribution company in the late... Full Biography
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