Ojai At The Oscars: Highway West's Singers Wins Big

Ojai: Talk of the Town · Mar 25, 2026 · 1h 1m

When Jack Piatt and partner David Breschel first joined Ojai Talk of the Town last year, Singers was a promising short film — ambitious, disciplined, and quietly powerful.

Now, it’s an Academy Award winner, in a stunning historical anomaly, tying with Two People Exchanging Saliva, the French entry, for the first time ever in this category, only the seventh overall. Piatt, Breschel and director Sam A. Davis shared the glory.

In this return conversation, Piatt pulls back the curtain on what it actually takes to move a film from idea to execution to Oscar night. We revisit the early instincts…