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Audience Choice Award 2026 Winner Announced

The Trail Running Film Festival is honored and excited to announce our first Audience Choice Award Winner for our 2026 Tour. Since our first show in Olympia, Washington in March of this year we’ve had thousands of folks from all over the world – and online – vote for their favorite film of TRFF’26. We’re stoked so many people participated and helped us select and reward our filmmakers in this way.

The Audience Choice Award 2026 is presented by Electric Cable Car. The winning filmmaker will receive $1,000 in cash in addition to a commemorative plaque, made by TRFF partner Wolfmother Workshop.

The top three films and clear favorites among our audience collectively received over 80% of the votes and were:

• In third place with 20.3% of total votes:
  ‘Songs and Flower‘ by Julen Elorza.
• In second place with 28.3% of total votes:
  ‘Dipsea Generation‘ by Paddy O’Leary.
• And the winner of the inaugural Audience Choice Award of the Trail Running Film Festival 2026 with 29.6% of total votes is: ‘Dick’s-A-Thon‘ by Dylan Young.

Learn more about the film here and listen to our interview with filmmaker Dylan Young on Singletrack.

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