DAYBREAK PICTURES

We are delighted to announce that ENDGAME has won the prestigious Peabody Award. David Aukin was on hand in New York last month to collect the award on behalf of the production. More

We are delighted to announce that ENDGAME has won the prestigious Peabody Award. David Aukin was on hand in New York last month to collect the award on behalf of the production.

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Endgame has been nominated in the Best Single Drama for the 2010 Broadcast Awards. More

Endgame has been nominated in the Best Single Drama for the 2010 Broadcast Awards. The awards will take place on the 27th January 2010 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.

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The team behind previous Daybreak Pictures dramas The Government Inspector and Britz are teaming up again on the new Peter Kosminsky film, Homeland. More

The team behind previous Daybreak Pictures dramas The Government Inspector and Britz are teaming up again on the new Peter Kosminsky film, Homeland. Production starts in February 2010 and will be a 4 x 1 hour drama serial for Channel 4 in association with Arte and Canal +. The film was developed in support with the MEDIA programme.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Thabo Mbeki in the Daybreak Pictures film ENDGAME. More

Chiwetel Ejiofor was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Thabo Mbeki in the Daybreak Pictures film ENDGAME. Nominations were announced at the end of 2009 and the 67th Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 17th 2010.

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The latest film from Daybreak Pictures, 'Endgame', premiers at the Sundance Fim Festival on January 18th 2009 at the prestigious Eccles Theatre. More

The latest film from Daybreak Pictures, 'Endgame', premiers at the Sundance Fim Festival on January 18th 2009 at the prestigious Eccles Theatre. The film is the story of a series of secret meetings that were the gateway to the fall of the Apartheid in South Africa. The film stars William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller, Mark Strong & Dereck Jacobi, it is directed by Pete Travis and written by Paula Milne based on the book 'The Fall of the Apartheid: The Inside story from Smuts to Mbeki' by Robert Harvey. More information on the film can be found at www.endgame-themovie.com.

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Britz has been nominated in the Best Drama Series or Serial catergory for the 2009 Broadcast Awards. More

Britz has been nominated in the Best Drama Series or Serial catergory for the 2009 Broadcast Awards. The awards will take place on the 21st January 2009 at the Grovesnor House Hotel, London.

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'Britz', directed and written by Peter Kosminsky for Channel 4, has been shortlisted in the catergory of best TV movie / Mini-Series for the 2008 International Emmy's. More

'Britz', directed and written by Peter Kosminsky for Channel 4, has been shortlisted in the catergory of best TV movie / Mini-Series for the 2008 International Emmy's. The ceremony takes place on November 19th 2008 in New York.

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Daybreak Pictures are currently in production for their new film ENDGAME written by Paula Milne and directed by Pete Travis. The film stars William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Derek Jacobi, Timothy West and Jonny Lee Miller. More

Daybreak Pictures are currently in production for their new film ENDGAME written by Paula Milne and directed by Pete Travis. The film stars William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Derek Jacobi, Timothy West and Jonny Lee Miller.

The film is based on a series of secret meetings that took place in the UK between the ANC and an Afrikaaner delegation that led to the fall of the apartheid in South Africa.

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Daybreak Pictures was last night awarded the BAFTA for best Drama Serial for the production of Britz for Channel 4. More

Daybreak Pictures was last night awarded the BAFTA 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: “The competition this year was of the highest quality, and so the win is all the sweeter for being unexpected. We are so very proud and delighted to have won with this contemporary and bold drama.”

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Daybreak Pictures, has signed Peter Kosminsky in an output deal that will see all future films authored and or directed by Kosminsky produced by Daybreak Pictures. More

Daybreak Pictures, has signed Peter Kosminsky in an output deal that will see all future films authored and or directed by Kosminsky produced by Daybreak Pictures.

This consolidates the existing close production relationship between Kosminsky and Daybreak Pictures co-Executive Producers David Aukin and Hal Vogel. Kosminsky and Aukin previously collaborated on multi-BAFTA winning The Government Inspector, and most recently Channel 4’s critically acclaimed two-part drama Britz, a co-production between Daybreak and Stonehenge Films with Aukin and Vogel as co-Executive Producers.

Among a number of projects Daybreak Pictures is already planning with Kosminsky either as director, writer or Executive Producer include Terrorists, about the struggle of the suffragettes, and a drama on the Litvinenko poisoning, both for Channel 4.

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Daybreak Pictures has won the RTS Award for Best Drama Serial for the production of Britz for Channel 4. More

Daybreak Pictures 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.”

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