The accolades keep rolling in for The Porter and Brother as both were honoured at the 27th annual Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards.

The event at Koerner Hall in Toronto on Monday (April 24) saw Clement Virgo’s coming-of-age film Brother (Conquering Lion Pictures, Hawkeye Pictures) win the Feature Film award, after landing a record 12 trophies at the Canadian Screen Awards earlier this month.

Meanwhile, Marsha Greene (pictured) snagged the Drama Series honour for penning “Episode 104” of CBC’s The Porter (Sphere Media), which also won 12 CSAs during this year’s Canadian Screen Week.

Other winners included Kurt Smeaton with the Comedy Series award for CTV’s Children Ruin Everything (New Metric Media), episode “Road Trips.” Writer-director Jason Sherman was awarded the Documentary honour for My Tree (Some Canadian, Hawkeye Pictures), which chronicles his journey to find the origins of a tree in Israel planted in his name decades ago.

The Mow & Miniseries award went to David Elver for scripting the romantic comedy Written in the Stars (Incendo, Screentime New Zealand), while Darrin Rose’s futuristic film Second Life won the Shorts category.

Veronika Paz won the Tweens & Teens award for writing CTV Sci-Fi’s Astrid & Lilly Save the World (Blue Ice Pictures) episode “One Rib.”

Over in Children’s, Christine Mitchell won for writing The Guava Juice Show web series (Mainframe Studios) episode “Adventure 9000,” while the Preschool award went to Ben Joseph and Mike D’Ascenzo for the Dino Ranch (Boat Rocker, Industrial Brothers) episode “Wings Over Dino Ranch.”

The ceremony also presented a few special trophies — to Laura Good, winner of the Sondra Kelly Award, and Adrian Morphy, who received the Jim Burt Screenwriting Prize for his script The 300 Year Old Man, according to a news release.

The event also presented the Showrunner Award to Susin Nielsen, creator and showrunner of Canadian legal drama TV series Family Law. 

The awards show was hosted by Saulteaux/Cree comedian, actor, writer Vance Banzo (TallBoyz) and marked a return to an in-person ceremony for the first time since 2019. Awards presenters included Anthony Q. Farrell (Shelved, Run the Burbs) and actress Paloma Nuñez (Shelved).

Photo of Marsha Greene courtesy of the Writers Guild of Canada