Submitted by Allie Claire Smith
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The Walla Walla Movie Crush (themoviecrush.com), which Professor Warren Etheredge co-founded with his partner, Nancy Dragun (who works at the UW in CBE), was named one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World by Moviemaker Magazine, alongside such stalwarts as SXSW, Telluride, Slamdance, and Clermont-Ferrand. This is particularly thrilling, as they are a smaller-scale festival, showing only the best of American short-form content.
For more, read the Moviemaker article at https://www.moviemaker.com/coolest-film-festivals-2025/, or visit their Substack, Crushworthy at https://crushworthy.substack.com/. It's free to subscribe!