Quarantine Crush: A COVID College Love Story 🎥

Veronica (18) is finally about to live the college life she always dreamed of, when the coronapandemic ruins any chance she had at friendships, a life or love. All alone she'll have to find creative ways to survive lockdown, her freshman year and hopefully make some memories along the way.

Quarantine Crush (2025) is a student film set in the COVID-19 Pandemic. It tells the fictional but very real story of a generation of students impacted by the 2020 lockdowns. Quarantine Crush is the ambitious passion project of director Richard Lamb Jr that aims to take people on a journey through their own corona-trauma and offer a student-perspective on the most uncertain time of our lives.

Written and Directed by: Richard Lamb Jr
Starring: Lieve de Putter, Denise Beijer, Cheyenne vd Hurk
Assistant director: Marcel Ruizendaal
Original Score by: Francisco Carneiro

Chapters:
00:00 - 02:48 - Chapter 1: Welcome to the Apocalypse
02:49 - 09:04 - Chapter 2: the Promise of a Student Life
09:05 - 16:19 - Chapter 3: Global Pandemic
16:20 - 22:36 - Chapter 4: Covid Insanity
22:37 - 30:08 - Chapter 5: Journey to Mother Earth
30:09 - 35:09 - Chapter 6: SPACE for introspection
35:10 - 36:13 - Credits






News sources used:
NOS, Video in verzet, CNN, NPO in politiek, ABC news, POWNED, Dumpert, Omroep West, DW News, Trajectum, The Guardian, AT5, Global News, Skynews
Use of news clips is protected under fair use laws.
Quarantine Crush (2025) is not a documentary, nor does it portray an objective retelling of historical events. Media is transformatively used for cinematic purposes.