We are delighted to announce the Screen Share 2026 Award Winners!
This year’s festival brought together an exciting selection of films and filmmakers from across the Caribbean, Canada and the wider diaspora, sharing stories across documentary, fiction, animation and more.
Our jury recognized outstanding work across a range of categories, celebrating excellence in filmmaking, storytelling, craft and creative vision.
Congratulations to all of our 2026 award winners, and to every filmmaker who shared their work with us at Screen Share: Caribbean Stories, Collective Power.
See the full list of winners below.
Special Awards
- Caribbean Spirit Award — Identity: Recognizing a film that strongly embodies Caribbean identity, culture, experience and imagination. – INDIVISUM : Legacies adrift – Katia Café Fébrissy
- Impact Award — Change: Recognizing a film with significant social, cultural or emotional impact. -At All Kosts – Joesph Hillel
- Innovation Award — Possibility: Celebrating bold and inventive approaches to cinematic storytelling, form, technology or genre. – The Forbidden University – Nauzanin Knight
- INTERSECT Award — Connection: Honouring a film that brings different cultures, identities, histories or perspectives into meaningful conversation. – Moonlighting – Jay Shetty
Film & Craft Awards
- Best Screenwriting – Unalive – Writer – Kwanza Nicole Gooden
- Best Cinematography – Spectral- DP – Henry Davis
- Best Animation – Nun’Ting To Worry About – Toni Lee Aping, Alder Bennet, Daisy Johnson
- Best Comedy -I’m Karen – Celia Dejoux
- Best Short Documentary – Beach Inna Bondage – Emiel Martens , Elsie Vermeer
- Best Short Film -Crossroads – Horane Henry
- Best Feature Documentary – Wealth Untold – Eladio Arvelo
- Best Feature Film – Queen of Soca – Kevin Adams