A Look At The Tromadance DVD's
A Review by Nick Peron
Dorkive Notes: In 2006 I had donated to Tromadance 2006, and as a result of my contribution they sent me a bunch of free crap, amung those items were the first three volumes of the the Best of Tromadance DVD sets. For the most part these DVD's were pretty good. I remember being thoroughly disappointed with the final disc because it had a lot of crap on it, if that was the best Tromadance could offer I was thoroughly disappointed. I was also a little more than disturbed by the fact that Peta2 had a noticable presence with the bonus content on the DVD because they were one of the sponsors of that years Tromadance. I'm going to save ranting here because I think I express myself pretty well at the end of this review, but I'll just say that although I'm all for protecting animals, I don't agree with the methods (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, perhaps I can suggest you do the necessary research and it'll become aparent)
That aside, I think the outlying message of my rant was that Tromadance prides itself by being a film festival for the people and here it was spouting the morals and mandates of an organization that has an agenda, which is usually something the folks at Troma are against... But I digress, the fact is, they need donations so perhaps I can't really blame them for making bed fellows with Peta2 to get their film festival going that particular year, but the fact remains that it should remain a festival of the people so I encourage people to donate to Tromadance in the future.
We here at Dorkswithoutfaces, love independent films. Love them. In fact, that accounts for probably 85% of the movies we've purchased here at our head office (read: the webmasters apartment). We've done some reviews of some really really shitty movies (Vampires Vs Zombies & Skateboard Kid come to mind) but it has been a very long time before we've looked at a movie that totally didn't suck shit from a diseased donkey rectum, so today that's going to change!
Recently we donated $100 bucks to the Tromadance Film Festival, one of the few truly independent film festivals that happens these days.
Tormadance, for those of you don't know, was founded in the year 2000 and it takes place in Park City, Utah, in direct competition of the Sundance film festival. Unlike the corporately driven shit-heads at Sundance, Tromadance doesn't charge people a fee to submit their movies, and they don't charge movie viewers an admittance fees and there are no VIP parties. Just one big festival which offers independent film makers (most of whom are poor and starving) a chance to show their art to the people (Which is the whole fucking point.) The idea was spearheaded by Troma co-creator and founder Lloyd Kaufman, who was inspired by the trouble that South Park creators Trey Stone and Matt Parker had getting their first film (Cannibal: The Musical, which Troma eventually distributed) to be shown at the Sundance film festival.
Where are we getting with all of this, and what does this have to do with a fucking film review? Oh you shit brained little maggot, hold onto your genitals because we're just about to get into that god damn it! Like I said, the webmaster here at DWOF decided to put $100 bucks into helping promote independent art (So should you by the way!) and we were received a few gifts of thanks from the wonderful folks at Troma. They sent us the first three volumes of their Best of Tromadance DVD's (available from Troma, of course.) and we were so impressed with what we saw we thought we'd share the experience.
With a few minor exceptions in these collections, I haven't seen such great story telling and film making in a long while, there are a lot of phenomenal works and I thought I'd take the time to promote not only Tromadance, but to give these short films a positive review (well except for the one or two I didn't like at all.) and put it up on our stupid little dog-and-pony web site.
So sit back and enjoy, and if you like what you read here, you can always get the following short films I mentioned and three more volumes of the same directly from the great folks at Troma.
