By Laura Medina
The alternative to the Oscars, Film Threat's "Award This!" award show showcasing then awarding this year's best alternative and independent movies and rising talent.
Yes, it's driven by Gen-X ingenuity in coping during 2021 quarantine, this year's awards show was a drive-in, where everyone is encouraged to honk their horns and flash their headlights, civilized rowdiness.
This is awarding all the nominees, winners or not, at the after-party at Drink Bar OC, https://drinkbaroc.com/, celebrating and sipping on the best cocktails in the OC, Orange County to be proper or "The Orange Curtain," if you want a life.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNg8DA3DBGd/ Drink Bar OC whips up the vintage egg white foam cocktails into the 21st century creaminess with Raspberry Crane and Sharp Sour.
See, what being independent alternative does for you, it makes one think out of the box into something better.
There were way too independent categories in the indie universal but Award This! Independent Romantic Comedy Category is the most ironic which makes it the most intriguing category. Independent romantic comedy is a juxtaposition of what romantic comedy, that the studios, think should be. Being indie busts through that stereotype that actually bores the hell out of the majority of people, knowing it's a falsehood that most can't experience or relate to.
Whereas in the independent world, it gives the freedom to fully explore all sorts of relationships that people did and are experiencing, which makes indie rom-com even more relatable and more relevant.
Striking against the stereotypical studio formula of pairing brunette man with blonde woman, Award This! Independent Romantic Comedy nominees show that there are many types of relationships, sex at any age and never too late, with "Senior Love Triangle," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUFO_0eYdT4
"Rent A Pal" film makers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Yp4PhVsZA say you have more leeway to explore the different aspects of relationships or seeking relationships, which sometimes, means going dark in order to go deep for meaningful, mature angle on relationships. In the independent film market, it's okay going against the grain of studio rom-com's ethos of "one size fits all." In the indie rom-com market, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uWIt_2JxpE "Rent A Pal" explores a deeper, more realistic aspect of loneliness and search of connection that's more relatable than the hetero-brunette male-blonde female studio couple "meet cute" illusion.
Award This! Gen-X organizers welcome and encourage, up and coming Millennial film-makers, especially women film-makers.
Penelope Lawson, the millennial film maker behind "1 Night in San Diego" https://www.amazon.com/Night-San-Diego-Jenna-Ushkowtiz/dp/B08MKV5MTD
says that "1 Night in San Diego" is about female empowerment.
Why San Diego?
According to Brooklynite Penelope, San Diego is her idea of somewhere exotic and different from the Hollywood/Manhattan spectrum. San Diego is a good locale to explore Millennial women finding themselves within a Millennial female friendship.
Penelope's boyfriend, actor Jonathan Lipnicki, said he likes "1 Night in San Diego" because it's free of gratuitous sex and violence.
Being in the independent romantic comedy market gives you the freedom to wipe away being dependent on someone to find happiness. "1 Night in San Diego" is about finding acceptance and happiness within one's self or the freedom to explore friendship sans sex or violence, exploring individual personal growth and progress, i.e. maturity, which "1 Night in San Diego" is all about.
"Limerence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziODZuzKCTo is very much mature, adult, Millennials in their thirties and Gen-X as the new establishment. Set in Venice, California's upscale hippy-artist, "Bobos in Paradise" Abbot Kinney neighborhood, it's an insider peek into that neighborhood's culture and mentality through a New Yorker transplant's pov.
It won Award This! Romantic Comedy category.
In the independent romance comedy's more inclusive and diverse market, it's everything and anything for everyone and anyone. It's okay to be you by doing you, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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