20 Films. $50,000 cash. You're the Judge.
Attend Film Prize in-person or online, watch all 20 short films, and you can vote for the grand prize winner as well as the best acting performance category.
Blood and Milk
Directed by Eve Crusto
A day-dreaming New Orleans teenager must overcome her fraught post-Katrina realities to determine the future of her newborn baby.
Written by Eve Crusto
Produced by Eve Crusto, Jo Rochelle
Starring J’aiLa Christina Price
Cinematography by Sam Black
Edited by Michael Wolfe
Music by Shamarr Allen
About the Filmmaker
Eve Crusto
Eve Crusto is a writer and mother on a mission to bring Louisiana Creole stories to life. She holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College, a Louisiana Teacher Certification via Teach For America, and a MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Competition Finalist, a winner of the 2020 International Centre for Women Playwrights Development Grant, and a finalist for the 2021 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Eve was a Staff Writer for FRIGHT KREWE on Hulu/Disney+. Eve lives in Los Angeles, but New Orleans lives in her.
