Vintage: The Best of Crush 2020
Congratulations to our 2020 WWMC award winners! Our distinguished jury named the following recipients:
Best YOUTH Short
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
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
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
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
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
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
Winner
BROTHER
d. Ya’Ke Smith
Winner
DEAR BRUH: A EULOGY, A BAPTISM, A CALL TO ACTION
d. Ya’Ke Smith
Audience Award
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 Movie 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