We’re honored to have won the Curator’s Choice Award at this year’s Walla Walla Movie Crush for two of our films.

Artistic Director & Crush Curator Warren Etheredge notes: “In a year of relentless crises — political, social, environmental, ethical, racial — I found myself astonished by a moviemaker who contributed both a fictional short and a documentary that demand we witness America’s ugly truths while remaining cognizant of the potential beauty within all of us. BROTHER stopped me in my tracks — I could not watch anything else for days, made near-nauseous by its narrative gut punch — and DEAR BRUH artfully and inarguably chronicles our nation’s systemic and hateful injustice. Ya’Ke Smith captured 2020 in a manner befitting a time-capsule and required viewing.”