Winners for the 2026 Season
Best Documentary - Short - TIE: Brampton Batman & Canoe Carry Me Home
Best Documentary - Feature - Thinking Beyond the Market: a film about genuinely affordable housing
Best Web Series - Eyes in the Woods
Best Music Video - New Midlife Disco
Best Screenplay - Micro - A Good, Evil Boy by Jerzy P. Suchocki
Best Screenplay - Short - Lumen by Michael Napisa
Best Screenplay - Feature - The Last Mile by Nick Fuller
Design Sound Productions Award for Best Sound Design - Gabriele Di Franco (Fantastic 4X2)
Riggi Media Award for Best Cinematography - Benjamin Schiavi-Paris (Face-Off)
The Your TV Award for Best Editing - TIE: J Fitzpatrick (Carp Fear) &
Isaiah Velasquez & Shaleice Davis (Entree)
Most Promising Individual - TIE Owen C for (Freshman) & Cohen Hulcoop (Therion)
Best Costuming - Brenda Fieldhouse (Mary Ann)
The Rob Herder Award for Physical Effects - Locked in the Cellar (Head Like a Hole)
Best Actor - Male - Steve Kasan (Head Like a Hole)
Best Actor - Female - Diana Zarnojska (Two Sisters)
Best Director - Eva Thomas (Two Sisters)
The Robert Bertrand Award for Comedic Genius - Hockey Mom
Best Short Film - Time Eater
Best Feature Film - Two Sisters
Chatham-Kent Youth Film Awards
Chatham-Kent winner - The Philosopher's Stone by Ellie Hansen
International winner - Immigrant by Nilram Ranjbar from the Islamic Republic of Iran

