2024 Film Threats Award This Nominees Revealed

ComingSoon exclusively reveals Film Threat’s Award nominees Prize this! A ceremony aimed at supporting exceptional independent films and raising awareness about them.

The concert is scheduled to take place on Sunday, February 2, 2025, at the Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, California. A limited number of tickets will soon be available for the public to purchase The official website of the show. It will also be possible to watch it on Film Threat’s YouTube channel shortly after the awards presentation.

“Hollywood continues to reboot and embrace AI, but independent filmmakers continue to show that the only limits in cinema are in your mind. Prize This! and Film Threat are here to support voices that represent a rebellious cry for cinematic chaos. Join us as we cheer on these maverick artists in February 2nd,” said Film Threat publisher and award winner This! Producer Chris Gore. “There’s no better time to have than with a group of independent filmmakers.”

The candidates are as follows:

Prize this! A film about films or filmmaking

• Disturbances of strength
• Boutique: for preservation and collection
• Chase Chase Amy
• Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
• The last film ever made
• Grinding masters

Prize this! Music documentary

• Art dealers
• Freestyle 101: A History of Hip-Hop
• Karen Carpenter: Starving for perfection
• Lee Fields: A loyal man
• Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis
• What the hell happened to the blood, sweat and tears

Prize this! A socially relevant documentary

• American home boy
• Americanized
• Great white summer
• Lead and copper
• Devil Queen
• Understanding autism

Prize this! Pop culture documentary

• Disturbances of strength
• Boutique: for preservation and collection
• Don Tiki
• Driven: The Tony Pearson Story
• Holy frit
• Scooter LaForge: An Artistic Life

Prize this! Unreal Strangers documentary

• Americanized
• Chase Chase Amy
• Married to comics
• Grinding masters
• Pencils Vs. pixel
• Scooter LaForge: An Artistic Life

Prize this! Indie science fiction

• Grim ending
• Hemisphere
• Restore point
• Redemption of Space Command
• Guardians of the Five Kingdoms
• Things will be different

Prize this! Indie horror

• sudden
• Hell is coming for you
• Harvest night
• Quantum Devil
• Suitable meat
• Wayneville

Prize this! Indie comedy

• Go west
• Hundreds of beavers
• Bad Carter
• The unexpected
• The last film ever made
• Yaniv

Prize this! Indie LGBTQ+ themed film

• August the twenty-second
• Chase Chase Amy
• Enter the drag dragon
• She is Conan
• Unscrew
• The way out

Prize this! Independent animation

• Oh my God: let us save Vic Moreau
• Max Beyond
• My love affair for marriage
• When Adam changes (Adam changes fasting)

Prize this! Indie action/thriller

• Bang Bang Betty: Valerie’s Revenge
• Death bitch
• The girl in the trunk
• Night shift
• Pizza Boy Rick
• Road kill

Prize this! WTF Indie like “What the hell is this movie?”

• sudden
• Night of the Killer Bears
• Serial Rabbit 7: Critical Rabbit Theory
• Spirit riser
• Surfer: Teenager faces fear
• Worm pornography

Prize this! Independent romance

• The Rocky Mountain Case
• Don’t say that
• Good things bad
• Molly and Max in the future
• Peak season
• Burning season

Prize this! Independent drama

• Good things bad
• The long game
• Peak season
• Seaweed
• Unscrew
• What did Deborah do?

Prize this! Independent music made for less than the cost of the contents of an Oscar gift bag (less than $100,000)

• Oscar
• Death bitch
• Cop versus killer
• Kingfish 2
• Serial Rabbit 7: Critical Rabbit Theory
• Directly through the crew