The Golden Spurtle and a Schitt's Creek Doc Top 2026 Oakville Film Festival

The Oakville Festivals of Film and Art wrapped its 13th year this month, and the winners are in. Leading the list was The Golden Spurtle, a U.K. and Australia comedy documentary about the world porridge championship, which took Best International Feature and Best International Director for Constantine Costi.

The other standout was The Little Town that Could, a Canadian short about the making of the CBC series Schitt's Creek. It won Best Student Film for director Molly Ruby and, in a festival first, the audience choice award for Best Short Film.

Other juried winners included Dancing on the Elephant for Best Canadian Feature, Shrimp Fried Rice for Best Canadian Short, Astronauta for Best International Short, and Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising for Best Indigenous Film. The audience choice award for Best Feature went to the sports drama Blindly Victorious, which opened the festival with two sold-out screenings.

The festival screened more than 100 films in person and online from June 17 to 27, with awards handed out at a ceremony at the downtown branch of the Oakville Public Library. Executive director Wendy Donnan said the seven-person jury watched every film to pick the winners.