Vintage: The Best of Crush 2020

Congratulations to our 2020 WWMC award winners!  Our distinguished jury named the following recipients:

Best YOUTH Short

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Winner

THE RULE OF FOURS
d. Max Rogoff

Other nominees:

KEEP YOUR HEAD UP, SWEET PEA (Sophie Meissner)
PRAY FOR WATER (Rene Rehak)
TATTWO (Emma Nebeker)
YOU’RE GONA BE OKAY (Catherine McCord)

 

Best Documentary Short

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Winner

THIS IS THE WAY WE RISE
d. Ciara Lacy

Other nominees:

THE FLIP (Reed Rickert)
LOST TIME (Leo Pfeifer)
NAZI VR (David Freid)
PETER’S PAINTING (Olivier Bernier)

 

Best NARRATIVE Short

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Winner

SOMETHING LIKE LONELINESS
d. Ben & Seth Epstein

Other nominees:

BLACK GHOST SON (Chris Low)
BROKEN BIRD (Rachel Harrison Gordon)
BROTHER (Ya’Ke Smith)
NOTHING TO SEE HERE (Amy Barham)

 

Best ANIMATED Short

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Winner

THE OPPOSITES GAME
d. Anna Samo & Lisa LaBracio

Other nominees:

A HOLE (Molly Murphy)
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (Kirsten Lepore)
ONLY THE MOON (SOLAMENTE LA LUNA) (Maya Cueva)
SEE ANIMALS (Scott Wenner)

 

Best Performance

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Winner

Jack DiFalco
EX-DISPOSER

Other nominees:

EAR ACHE — DeMorge Brown
NOTHING TO SEE HERE — Kate Burton
WONDER — Gabriel Furman
BROKEN BIRD — Indigo Hubbard-Salk

 

Best Filmed Screenplay

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Winner

QUERY
Sophie Kargman & Ryan Farhoudi

Other nominees:

AYE, BOY (My-Hanh Lac)
EAR ACHE (Alex Kavustskiy)
SOMETHING LIKE LONELINESS (Ryan Dowler & Seth Epstein)
STUCCO (Janina Gavankar & Russo Schelling)

 

Curator’s Choice

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Winner

BROTHER
d. Ya’Ke Smith

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Winner

DEAR BRUH: A EULOGY, A BAPTISM, A CALL TO ACTION
d. Ya’Ke Smith

 

Audience Award

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Winner

THE LONG RIVER HOME
d. Seth Dahl

The Audience Award is determined by a weighted ballot vote solely from our Iron Ass Jury - audience members who watched every single film at the 2020 博彩导航 Crush -- thus making this the only true Audience Favorite award on the film festival circuit. These members are:

Aaron Bourget

Nancy Dragun

Charlie Hafenbrack

Linda Hoyt

Diana Knauf

Björn Levidow

Lynn Sealey

Bill Szuch

Bonnie Szuch