“Titans of the American short film scene” - short of the week ”legitimized the once-absurd premise of filmmaking in Miami” - miami herald “The most conceptually bold film festival of its era” -filmmaker magazine “The Weirdest Film Festival on the Planet” - indiewire “Miami's Best Festival” - best of miami awards “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” - “local geniuses” - Huffington Post “making an impact across the filmmaking world”- film threat “Tiny, Eccentric, and Inspiring...the center of a vibrant and visionary filmmaking community in Miami…” - Indiewire “...Borscht’s organizational methods are as experimental and visionary as the work it produces…” - indiewire “one of the biggest forces behind Miami’s ‘renaissance” - Huffington Post “teeming with lunacy and inspired imagination” - indiewire “akin to Sundance on psychotropic mushrooms” - Miami New Times “Is the Next Great Hope of American Film Hiding in Florida?” - Indiewire “a brash sense of humor, zero tolerance for self-importance, pop-culture savvy and unexpected, sometimes poetic beauty" - Miami Herald ”...Underneath the group’s playful, irreverent veneer is a serious commitment to creative expression, hard work and intellectual curiosity.” - Miami Herald