Vintage: The Best of Crush 2018

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Congratulations to our 2018 WWMC award winners!  Our distinguished jury named the following recipients:

Best Narrative Short

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Winner

CONTROL

d. Kimmy Gatewood

Other nominees:

CAROLINE (Logan George & Celine Held)

EMERGENCY (Carey Williams)

MAGIC BULLET (Amanda Lovejoy Street)

WYRM (Christopher Winterbauer)

 

Best Documentary Short

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Winner

STYROFOAM COLLECTOR

d. Noah Sheldon

Other nominees:

DESCRIBE WHAT YOU HEARD (Joe Callander, Jason Tippett)

FACE NEW YORK (Erin Sanger)

MAURITANIA RAILWAY: THE BACKBONE OF THE SAHARA (Macgregor)

OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CITY (Lucy Walker)

 

Best Animated Short

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Winner

NEGATIVE SPACE

d. Max Porter & Ru Kuwahara

Other nominees:

COKE HABIT (Dress Code)

DRAWN & RECORDED: CHEMIROCHA (Drew Christie)

TWO BALLOONS (Mark Smith)

WINSTON (Aram Sarkisian)

 

Best Student Short

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Winner

REQUIEM FOR MR. CROMWELL

d. Theo Taplitz

Other nominees:

ART OF MEMORIES (Kate Graves)

CONFINED (the Zavitsanos brothers)

DENIAL (Alina Foley)

FIND A WAY (Tomas Reyes)

 

Best Performance

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Winner (Tie)

Dale Dickey

LAST REQUESTS

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Winner (Tie)

Rosemarie DeWitt

MAGIC BULLET

Other nominees:

Piercey Dalton, A FOREMAN

Tony Grayson, ALLEN ANDERS: LIVE AT THE COMEDY CASTLE ca. 1987

Celine Held, CAROLINE

Nardeep Khurmi, PAGG

Molly Parker, MAGIC BULLET

 

Best Screenplay

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Winner

DISFLUENCY

Anna Baumgarten

Other nominees:

BLACK CHICKS (Neil LaBute)

EMERGENCY (Carey Williams)

MAGIC BULLET (Amanda Lovejoy Street)

'TIL DEATH DO US PART (Lindsay Stidham)

 

Curator’s Choice

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Winner

MAGIC BULLET

d. Amanda Lovejoy Street

 

Audience Award

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Winner (Tie)

LAST REQUESTS

d. Courtney Johnson

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Winner (Tie)

TWO BALLOONS

d. Mark C. Smith

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 2018 博彩导航 Crush -- thus making this the only true Audience Favorite award on the film festival circuit.  These members are:

 Hap Enzi

Beth Gavigan

Leslie Gavigan

Charlie Hafenbrack

Linda Hoyt

Steven Kliewe

Diana Knauf-Levidow

Björn Levidow

Vance Malone

Emil Markovitch

Tatiana Markovitch

Dave Merlino

Sarah Michelson

Leroy Novaria

Don Roff

Cathy Simmons

Woody Simmons

Bill Szuch

Bonnie Szuch

Jeffrey Townsend

Kim Viscio