Charlie Kaufman: not the guy who made "Poultrygeist."

Via the Calgary Herald:

In 2008, low-budget filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman received a lifetime achievement award at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival in Spain, which specializes in horror and fantasy films.

As he went up to accept the award, a tribute reel played in the background that was supposed to highlight his contributions to cinema as head of Troma Entertainment, from The Toxic Avenger to Poultrygeist: Night of the Living Chicken. Unfortunately, there was a bit of a mix-up. The films featured were all from critics’ darling Charlie Kaufman, the oddball auteur behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich.

“That was a great moment,” says Kaufman. (Source)

It'd be even funnier if this happened the other way around.

And just to confuse things more, Lloyd has a brother named Charles, who's also a film-maker.

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