Daybreak Pictures, part of Mentorn Media, has won the RTS Award for Best Drama Serial for the production of Britz for Channel 4.
The two-part thriller, written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, was executive produced by Hal Vogel and David Aukin, and Steve Clark Hall was producer. The gripping story of a brother and sister, British-born and Muslim pulled in different directions by their conflicting personal experiences in post 9/11 Britain, was a co-production between Daybreak and Stonehenge Films.
Daybreak Pictures’, David Aukin, said: “We are thrilled and thank the RTS for honouring these remarkable and controversial films. Special congratulations to the writer and director Peter Kosminsky. Both his films with us have now won this prestigious award, surely an unprecedented double.”
Their previous collaboration between Kosminsky and Aukin, The Government Inspector about the death of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, won an RTS Programme Award for Best Single Drama in 2005.
Peter Kosminsky is working with Daybreak Pictures in an exclusive output deal which sees all future projects authored and/or directed by him made under the Daybreak banner.
Notes to Editors
Daybreak Pictures was set up in September 2006 by former Channel 4 and Mentorn head of drama David Aukin and former Mentorn executive producer Hal Vogel. Previous credits include The Trial of Tony Blair, A Very Social Secretary, and Confessions of a Diary Secretary.
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