Award This! in its 6th Year Honors Indie Filmmakers In-Person on February 2nd, 2025!
Film Threat’s Award This! has become a unique voice for indie film and an annual industry staple. An event with a mission — to champion independent films across a multitude of diverse categories to bring awareness to the growing number of exceptional indies available on DVD, VOD, and streaming services. Film Threat recognizes these films each year with a ceremony hosted by actors, comedians and critics, and the celebration continues at a huge afterparty. And yes, there will be an Award This! gift bag.
The Award This! nominees were selected from over 2,000 indie films reviewed by Film Threat in 2023/2024. Award This! returns for its sixth year and will take place at the Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, California on Sunday, February 2nd and a limited number of tickets are now available for sale to the public on the Frida Cinema website.
Film Threat’s Award This! show can also be seen on YouTube shortly after the awards are presented. Film Threat’s Award This! is the only award show where the general public may attend by simply buying a ticket. (Try getting tickets to the Oscars!)
Jason Loftus – Director of Eternal Springs – 2023 Award This! Best Animated Feature of the Year
This years’ vastly differing nominees have offered unique views with a horror icon, musical voices of two generations, the wide landscape of animation, love in your twenties, the journey of autism, and more. And the utterly unique Award This! bold and diverse categories include Indie Sci-Fi, Documentary, Indie Horror, Indie Comedy, Indie LGBTQ+ Film, Unreal Outsiders Documentary Indie Action/Thriller, Indie Drama, Indie Romantic Comedy, Music Documentary, Indie Animation, Films About Filmmaking, WTF Indie, Pop Culture Documentary, Socially Relevant Documentary, Short Film, Best Director, Best Directress, Indie Made for Less Than the Contents of an Oscar Gift Bag (Under $100K), and Indie Movie of the Year.
“Hollywood continues to reboot and embrace AI, but indie filmmakers continue to show us that the only limits in cinema are in your mind…”
“Hollywood continues to reboot and embrace AI, but indie filmmakers continue to show us that the only limits in cinema are in your mind. Award This and Film Threat are here to champion voices that are a rebel yell of cinematic anarchy. Join us as we cheer on these maverick artists on February 2nd, ” states Film Threat publisher and Award This! producer Chris Gore.” There’s no better time to be had than with a group of indie filmmakers.”
The nominating board of Award This! is comprised of the staff of Film Threat’s editors and critics which number 30+ worldwide along with an advisory board of media figures and independent film luminaries.
And now, may we present the Award This! 2024 Nominees thus far, with more to come…
