God, I love Lloyd Kaufman. The Troma figurehead was frustrated that the Tribeca Film Festival’s takeover of the Village East Cinema prevented the theater from being able to show trailers or post posters for Troma’s Poultrygeist for two weeks before the film was set to open there. So he dressed up like a chicken and protested in front of the theater on the final weekend of the festival. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, Poultrygeist’s opening night at the Village East is now sold out. In the Page Six story, Kaufman complains that the “Tri-beak-a Film Festival” has never screened a Troma film, and there are probably a lot of reasonable reasons for that, but the fact remains that as an extremely corporate event blocking a local, truly independent filmmaker from promoting his upcoming release in the usual ways, they’re sort of asking for it.

Story via Indie Eye; the above photo via EssG on Flickr.