Fantasia 2025 Review: OCCUPY CANNES, After Decades of Disrupting Media, Here is That Year Troma Disrupted Cannes

"It’s word-of-mouth. That’s the secret": Occupy Cannes Subjects Lloyd Kaufman and Catherine Corcoran and Director Lily-Hayes Kaufman on the Survival of Independent Filmmaking at Fantasia 2025 (INTERVIEW)

In the independent film community, few names are as iconic as Troma Entertainment, the famously scrappy production company behind films like The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke ‘Em High. The company’s latest film, Occupy Cannes, is a documentary following the Troma Team as they headed to Cannes in 2013 to promote the premiere of Return to Nuke ‘Em High Vol. 1, only to run into opposition from the establishment… and the authorities. Timed to the …

Fantasia 2025 Review: OCCUPY CANNES, After Decades of Disrupting Media, Here is That Year Troma Disrupted Cannes

In 2013, the Troma Team returned to the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du film for the first time in a decade. Their mission was twofold. First, sell their latest production at the time, Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1. Two, give those media conglomerates what for and prove to them that independent film still has a place in the world of film.    Armed with cameras, picket signs made with scavenged wood, masks and costumes from the rest of the Tr…