Edmonton-made documentary Crip Trip wins big at Alberta's Rosie Awards

Crip Trip, the Edmonton-made documentary series from Catapult Pictures, won Best Unscripted Series at the 2026 Rosie Awards, the Alberta Media Production Industries Association's annual film and television awards, held last weekend at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary. The series followed filmmaker best friends Daniel Ennett and Frederick Kroetsch, with Ennett, a quadruple amputee and human-rights activist, travelling across North America over three seasons to interview disabled people. Crip Trip took three wins from its 15 nominations.

Frederick Kroetsch also won Best Screenwriter Unscripted Over 30 Minutes for the episode "Flowers in your Chair."

"I spent the last three seasons going all over North America, talking with disabled people and hearing their stories," Ennett said at the awards night. "Stories of institutionalization, stories of legislated poverty. And I encourage all the media people here today to tell the hard story."

Kroetsch said: "Alberta is competitive in the documentary space and to be honored like this is f—ing wicked. We want to get the message out – let's fix our broken system and give disabled people the care they need."

Other Edmonton-based winners included Score G Productions and Gruvpix Films, which won Best Overall Sound Unscripted Over 30 Minutes for the Bif Naked documentary, with sound winners Johnny Blerot and Carey Opper. Chase Gardiner and Kevin Morstad won Best Production Designer/Art Director on the same film, and Alec Harrison of Score G won Best Original Musical Score Unscripted.

Local singer and mental health activist Lyra Brown and Moving Artistry Productions took Best Music Video for "Shades of Blue," a video shot in a teardown house painted black and blue on the inside. Justin Brunelle, Tony Kinash and David Baron are listed as producers. 1844 Studios, with producers Mitra Knight, Nauzanin Knight and Bonnie Thompson, won Best Production Reflecting Cultural Diversity for The Forbidden University, a documentary about students in Iran learning in secret. The CBC Gem documentary The Secret Long Tree Society, which received seven nominations, won Best Cinematographer Unscripted Over 30 Minutes for Colin Waugh and Jeff Khounthavong.

The full list of winners is posted at ampia.org.