2026 CUFF.Docs Awards

The CUFF.Docs 2026 Awards will be announced online following the festival. Check back for winners!

Audience Awards

Best Documentary Feature
Runner-Up
Best Documentary Short

Jury Awards

Best Documentary Feature

2026 Jurors

David Anthony Ngo
David Anthony Ngo is an award winning Australian/Canadian filmmaker. Recently, he wrote and directed the Sundance feature ‘NEVER GET BUSTED!’ (Paramount+), Executive Produced by John Battsek (Academy Award Winner Searching for Sugar Man) and Chris Smith (Tiger King, 100 Foot Wave). He is the winner of the PBS Human Spirit Award, Austin Film Festival Jury Prize, and LA’s Dances With Films Best Feature Documentary. As a screenwriter, he has been nominated for the WeScreenplay 'Diverse Voices’, Tracking Board Launch Pad and Austin Film Festival Competitions. 

Laura O'Grady
Laura O’Grady has, written or directed hundreds of hours of  content, with films airing on every Canadian network and platforms around the world. Her films have screened at Hot Docs (Cafe-Nation, Eviction Notice) CIFF (Undetectable, Francheska: Prairie Queen, Gross Indecency, Lost Horizons) and won or been nominated for numerous AMPIA and Canadian Screen Awards (Queer Hutterite, Gross Indecency, The Former Life of Amber Valley). In 2022 she was listed on the Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award/Directors to Watch Long List, one of only five documentary directors. She is currently in production on 3 feature films, which will be released over the next 6 months. In her spare time Laura is in endless pursuit of being deemed “cool” by her fantastic teenaged-daughters.

Jeremy Pollock
Jeremy Pollock is an award-winning filmmaker with 26 years of experience in the film industry and a member of the Alberta Post Production Association. He founded Dreadnaught, a Calgary-based production company, and has spent the past several years increasingly focused on documentary filmmaking. In the last two years, Jeremy has produced and shot two feature-length documentaries and directed a short documentary that screened at CUFF Docs in 2025. He is currently producing and shooting a third feature documentary, with four additional documentary projects in development.