Draft:Tromanale

Tromanale was a free independent and underground Film Festival in Berlin. operating alongside the Berlinale Film Festival in 2005 and 2006. There was no-entry-fee and the whole festival was open for everybody. The Film Festival offered a lot of filmmaking workshops, live-act-shows, live-music-bands and many short movies and feature movies for the awards show on the last day of the festival. The idea of the Tromanale based on the TromaDance Film Festival, which also operated concurrently alongside the Sundance Film Festival. The co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio Lloyd Kaufman took also part and gave a lecture about filmmaking.

Overview
The Tromanale Film Festival was founded by StØrfan Sander. It takes 10 days non-stop from the first day of the Berlinale Film Festival till the last day of the Berlinale Film Festival. During the Film Festival little parade were organised on the place of the Berlinale Film Festival. This parades tried to give some attention for the Underground film culture and promoted the Tromanale Film Festival as well. The Festival Award was the Tromanale Bear as a counterpart of the Golden Bear. Because of the length of the Festival each submitted movie were screened. Additionally some Troma Entertainment Movies were also screened in order to fill all the 10 days with enough movies. In addition to the many film screenings, band performances and workshops, there were also more subtle live performances, including a live act of love by the environmental activist group "Fuck For Forest".

History
In 2005 the Tromanale took place in c-base location from 2005-02-10 till 2005-02-20. The winner of the Best Feature Film Award 2005 was "Die You Zombie Bastards!" by Caleb Emerson. In 2006 the Tromanale took place on the top floor of the Kunsthaus Tacheles from 2006-02-09 till 2006-02-19 As the Kunsthaus Tacheles has more space is was able to screen the movies and start the music live acts at the same time. In 2006 all guests got vegan food for free. The winner of the Best Feature Film Award 2006 was the movie "Confederate Zombie Massacre" by Devi Snively. The Festival, the movies, the live acts and also the food were for free whereby the cost for the Tromanale was to expensive for the following years. After the Tromanale 2006 GEMA charged the organizer because the event was not registered as a music event. A fine of €10,000 was demanded for this failure. A small best-of screening of the Tromanale took place in the Directors Lounge in 2009