The DR Drama series won Best Danish drama of the year and Feras Fayyad’s film about the Syrian conflict Best Documentary at Copenhagen’s Tvprisen awards held on Saturday.

Ride Upon the Storm created by Adam Price, was competing against DR’s other drama The Legacy 3, Zentropa/TV2’s The Day Will Come, SAM Productions/Kanal 5’s Below the Surface, SAM Productions/TV2 Charlie’s Something’s Rockin’, SF Studios Production/TV2’s Norskov 2, SF Studios Production/TV2’s Rita 4 and TV2 Zulu’s Perfect Places.

The faith-related drama produced by DR Drama with Sam le Français and Arte France, premiered last September on DR1 and season 2 will air in the fall 2018. Studiocanal handles world sales.

Lars Mikkelsen who plays Pastor Johannes in the series, had another opportunity to celebrate on Saturday, as narrator of DR’s documentary series History of Denmark (Historien om Danmark), double winner of the Innovation Prize and Audience Prize. DK Kultur’s series which reviews the country’s history from prehistoric times to nowadays, was watched by more than a million Danish TV viewers.

In other categories, the Oscar-nominated Last Men in Aleppo directed by Fayyad with co-director Steen Johannesen for Larm Film/Aleppo Media Centre took home Best Documentary, and DR Ultra’s web series Klassen which had picked up in October the prestigious Prix Europa-Best Web Format, was awarded on Saturday a Tvprisen for Best Children’s Programme. The celebrated documentarist Poul-Erik Heibuth (Terminal F/Chasing Edward Snowden) was handed out the Honorary Otto award.

Both Ride Upon the Storm and Last Men in Aleppo were backed by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

The annual Danish TV awards voted upon by the Danish TV industry is arranged by the Copenhagen TV Festival, itself backed by the Danish Producers’ Association and Danish TV broadcasters.

For the full list of awards, check here: www.cphtvfestivl.dk