2022 Nobis Industry Icon Winner Jeff Churchill

CAFTCAD is extremley honoured to present the 2022 Nobis Industry Icon Award to Jeff Churchill of Jitterbug Boy Shoes, who has brought Canada to the forefront of international Costume Designers’ thoughts when it comes to footing their characters on stage and screen.

It is common knowledge that it takes a team to design a production, but it is not just the core team that matters - it is all the collaborators that bring the costumes to life on screen. Having the perfect clothing requires the perfect footwear - and that’s where Jeff comes in. Jeff and his team at his Jitterbug Boy shop are the wizards of sole. Since beginning his service of making bespoke shoes the industry embraced this resource and started to include custom footwear as an important part of the overall design of productions.

Artists like Jeff are the glue that holds the costume community together, and his excellence in shoemaking has helped put Toronto, and Canada, on the map globally not just as a place to film, but also as a place where true costume artistry is practiced. Jeff has worked with Costume Designers and their teams from all over the world and built footwear for the top actors of our time right here in Canada. He has continually experimented and innovated to create footwear designs from ancient Pompeii, to Victorian England, to WWII Germany, to 50’s New York, to modern day superheroes, to the future in space helping costume designers achieve their vision with aesthetics and comfort.

Jitterbug Boy footwear have appeared in Nightmare Alley, Rocketman, The Shape of Water, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Star Trek: Discovery, Harder They Fall, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, among hundreds of other credits.

The Nobis Industry Icon Award is presented to a Costume Creator, Costume Designer or Contributor who has distinguished themselves over the breadth of their career and their contributions to Canadian Costume Design and Arts for film, television and digital media.  

Nobis, the globally renowned Canadian premium outerwear and accessory brand, is a Sponsor of the CAFTCAD Awards. The Nobis Industry Icon Award recognizes and honours iconic talent who have made a distinctive impact to the Canadian film and television costume industry. United by the celebration of excellence, the 2022 CAFTCAD Awards marks 13 years of partnership between Nobis and CAFTCAD.