Tomboy Tirade Episode 42: The Oscar Odyssey Awards

In this tyre-screeching 42nd episode of Tomboy Tirade, the Tomboy Tarts, Persis and Raven, are planning to illegally gate-crash the Oscar Odyssey Awards, a cheaper, China-made version of the Academy Awards, with their friends and accomplices from Canberra, Australia, the Silver Screen Queens, Katie Malloy and Melissa Savage. Persis and Raven travel in style in Ellen Degeneres’ limo to the awards venue. Along the way, Persis reveals that Ellen Degeneres’ limo is packed full of surprises, from a built-in toilet to a mobile vet clinic run by every animal’s favourite doc, Dr Doolittle who lives in one of the limo’s glove boxes. As the Tomboy Tarts approach the awards venue, paparazzi are gathering all over the place but thanks to their crazy limo driver, Nitro’s stunt-driving skills, the girls manage to evade them. Not surprisingly, Raven gets car sick and pukes all over the place, just as they discover that the Silver Screen Queens were already at the awards, trying to sneak in, quite unsuccessfully backstage and are now on the run from security. Nitro screeches off and manages to eventually drop the girls off at a quieter part of the awards venue parking lot at Backstage D before unexpectedly getting into a hit and run with Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhall and an angry cat. To avoid being caught, they escape, unseen backstage where they shred the month’s Oscar news and controversies from the surprisingly lack of diversity in this year’s Academy Awards to the increasing Americanisation of the awards resulting in the dearth of appreciation of films from the UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada and Asia in the main categories of awards. After that, Persis trawls the backstage corridors to get an interview with Sanif Olek, whose film ‘Sayang Disayang’ was Singapore’s official Foreign Film entry in this year’s Academy Awards. Sanif reveals how the film was made, his challenges while making it and the inspiration behind the film. After that, it’s time for Persis to rejoin Raven, Melissa and Kate at the awards show as they review some of the nominees in the main categories of the awards this year before it all goes to pots when Dr Doolittle, who escapes his glove-box veterinary clinic and takes over the wheels of Nitro’s limo, gatecrashes the awards show, while accepting his award. Who crashes and burns during this star-studded ceremony? Well, you’ll have to tune in and find out, won’t you? IN A NUTSHELL: Tomboy Tirade Ep 42: The Oscar Odyssey Awards f. Silver Screen Queens & Sanif Olek Teaser | The Tomboy Tarts travel in Ellen Degeneres’ limo to the Oscar Odyssey Awards and meet Dr Doolittle Guest Intro | Say hello to the Silver Screen Queens who are on the run from security. News Highlight 1 | The lack of diversity at the 2015 Academy Awards News Highlight 2 | The increasing Americanisation of the Oscars, the death of the Australian film industry and the ‘apology award-makeup rule’ practised so blatantly at the awards. Sanif Speaks | Persis chats with veteran Singapore filmmaker, Sanif Olek on his feature debut, ‘Sayang Disayang’. The 2015 Oscars Predictions Outro | Dr Doolittle gate-crashes the Oscar Odyssey Awards. Meet Sanif Olek! A Singapore producer, director and filmmaker who has been pounding the pavements of directing for TV and films in Singapore since 1998. A full-time freelance director, Sanif's first feature length Malay film, ‘Sayang Disayang’, is Singapore's official entry into the foreign film category of the Oscars. The film has won rave reviews and is travelling the film festival circuit as we speak.  Support the film by heading to the film's official Facebook page to find out where it's screening next. Read more about Sanif in this recent interview on the Insider's Guide to Singapore. Based out of Canberra, Australia and not too far away from us, The Silver Screen Queens are Katie Molloy and Melissa Savage, 2 film enthusiasts who met at film school and have come together to produce and host a weekly film review podcast. They hold none of their opinions back on the films they review so give them a listen on iTunes or on their official website, The Silver Screen Queens. You can also connect with the Silver Screen Queens on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr! Send them your latest film review if you dare! Or follow their personal Twitter accounts at: Katie Molloy’s Twitter @ green_queen Melissa Savage’s Twitter @melissasavage Of course, while you're doing that, don’t forget to check us out, the Tomboy Tarts! Here’s our official video and for more tomboy-related stuff, visit us at Tomboy Tarts, the official online home of Tomboy Tirade, the comedy chat podcast. Follow or like us on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and our official fan page on Facebook!