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!