The Best of Crush 2022
Congratulations to our 2022 WWMC award winners! Our distinguished jury named the following recipients:
Best YOUTH Short
Nominees:
ÇA VA? (Felix Aaronson)
SEEN (Julian Dean)
THE DEBATER (Maya Miller)
THE FIRST 280 HONEST WORDS OF MY LIFE (Ella Janes)
THINK LIKE A FILMMAKER (Eli Berliner)
Winner
THE FIRST 280 HONEST WORDS OF MY LIFE
d. Ella Janes
Best Documentary Short
Nominees:
ELVIS OF LAOS (Van Ditthavong)
MORE THAN I REMEMBER (Amy French)
STRANGER AT THE GATE (Joshua Seftel)
WHEN I’M HER (Emily Schuman)
YOU’VE NEVER BEEN COMPLETELY HONEST (Joey Izzo)
Winner
STRANGER AT THE GATE
d. Joshua Seftel
Best NARRATIVE Short
Nominees:
BABYSITTING (Patrick Noth)
CHORUS (Daniel J. Egbert)
NOOR & LAYLA (Fawzia Mirza)
NORTH STAR (PJ Palmer)
ROCKING HORSES (Rachel Serada Barth)
Winner
NORTH STAR
d. PJ Palmer
Best ANIMATED Short
Nominees:
DEMI’S PANIC (Bill Plympton)
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU (Lydia Ricci)
INNER WOUND REAL (Carrie Hawks)
MORE THAN I REMEMBER (Amy Bench)
THE ORIGINALS (Cristina Constantini & Alfie Koetter)
Winner
MORE THAN I REMEMBER
d. Amy Bench
Best Performance
Nominees:
ZAFAR — Ismail Bashey
POP TART SUGAR DIP — Cecilia Bonner
NORTH STAR — Colman Domingo
CHORUS — Tate Ellington
SPARRING PARTNER — KeiLyn Durrel Jones
SPARRING PARTNER — Cecily Strong
MARIE — Jen Winslow
Winner
Colman Domingo
NORTH STAR
Best Filmed Screenplay
Nominees:
ROCKING HORSES (Rachel Serada Barth)
ACT OF GOD (Spencer Cook & Parker Smith)
CHORUS (Daniel J. Egbert)
I LIVE HERE (Tyler Evans)
SPARRING PARTNER (Neil LaBute)
Winner
ACT OF GOD
Spencer Cook & Parker Smith
BEAST OF THE CRUSH
Nominees:
GINA — Muneca the Pit Bull
NORTH STAR — The Horse Butterscotch
ROCKING HORSES — The Rocking Horse
Winner
The Horse Butterscotch
NORTH STAR
Curator’s Choice
Winner
ROCKING HORSES
d. Rachel Serada Barth
Audience Award
WINNER
FAVORITE DAUGHTER
d. Dana Reilly
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 2022 Movie Crush -- thus making this the only true Audience Favorite award on the film festival circuit. These members are:
Peyton Bissell
Dorothy Diede
Bryan Ford
Linda Hoyt
Alexa Lynch
Shane Morland
Barbara Sapp
Logan Smith
Bill Szuch
Jeffrey Townsend
Cat Chang
Drew Favors
Charlie Hafenbrack
Diana Knauf
Maddie McDougall
Jameson Morland
Doug Sapp
Oliver Stamatatos
Bonnie Szuch
Chris Conrad
Kennedy Finke
Neve Hamalian
Björn Levidow
Maya Miller
Christopher Richert
Raymond Scholes
Terry Stanly
Patrice Townsend
Read more about our award medallions here!