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Downey’s Dream Cars on Max and Christian Cooper of National Geographic’s Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper were among the winners Saturday night the 51st Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmys.

Held a day after the Daytime Emmys at downtown Los Angeles’ Westin Bonaventure Hotel, the Creative Arts & Lifestyle awards honored legal/courtroom dramas, travel/adventure programs, and arts and culture shows, as well as lighting and technical direction specialists and costumers, cinematographers and hairstylists.

Among the winners was Amazon Freevee’s Judy Justice for best Legal/Courtroom Program. The Kelly Clarkson Show, which picked up its fourth consecutive talk-show win the night before, scored two more wins Saturday, for lighting design and live sound mixing/editing.

Multiple winners Saturday also included Nat Geo’s Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory, Netflix’s Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, and Netflix’s African Queens: Njinga.

See the complete list of winners below.

Stars: Riz Moritz, Ellie Duckles, Tori Butler-Hart, Matt Barber, Emma King, Graham Butler, Hattie Chapman, Luca Thompson | Written by Matthew Butler-Hart, Tori Butler-Hart | Directed by Matthew Butler-Hart

On-screen text sets the scene for Dagr, clarifying that the unfolding film is video footage from an ongoing homicide investigation that professional filmmakers have edited. The opening footage establishes central characters Louise (Riz Moritz) and Thea (Ellie Duckles), best friends who are fame-seeking YouTubers with a huge following. The pair disguise their faces in order to make their videos, where they commit crimes such as theft and graffiti in the name of justice.

For their next video, the pair arrive at a lavish house where a commercial is being filmed. As the duo intend to steal fancy items to donate to the poor, they are unaware that the filming crew have accidentally awakened a druid demon from the past. What unfolds are strange occurrences which threaten their lives.

The found-footage feature stars Matt Barber of ‘Downton Abbey’ and Ellie Duckles from Netflix drama ‘The A List’.

Found-footage horror Dagr, starring Ellie Duckles from Netflix drama The A List and Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, has been acquired for distribution in North America, Australia and New Zealand by The Horror Collective.

The UK feature will be available on digital platforms in the territories from mid-April through the genre label, which is part of Shaked Berenson’s Los Angeles-based worldwide sales and distribution company Entertainment Squad. The deal was closed directly with the filmmakers.

Game Of Thrones star Conleth Hill,...

Directed by Matthew Butler-Hart, the film is from the team behind supernatural thriller ‘The Isle’ and lockdown sci-fi ‘Infinitum: Subject Unknown’.

Production has wrapped in Wales on found-footage horror Dagr, starring Matt Barber of Downton Abbey and Ellie Duckles from Netflix drama The A List.

The feature is directed by Matthew Butler-Hart, who co-wrote and produces the film with Tori-Butler Hart for Fizz and Ginger Films. The duo are known for lockdown sci-fi feature Infinitum: Subject Unknown and supernatural thriller The Isle.

Dagr shot near the Brecon Beacons in south Wales and stars Duckles alongside newcomer Riz Moritz as fame-seeking YouTubers.

"This is a dead isle. We're only here because we've no choice." Great Point Media recently debuted the first official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled The Isle, set in 1846 on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. Based loosely on Scottish ghostly folklore with inspiration from the Greek sirens, the film is about three survivors from a mysterious sinking of their merchant ship who find themselves stuck on a small isle, where the only inhabitants seem just as strange as the things that begin to happen. From director Matthew Butler-Hart, The Isle features Conleth Hill, Alex Hassell, Tori Butler-Hart, Fisayo Akinade, Alix Wilton Regan, Graham Butler, and Emma King. If you're in the mood for a misty, chilling Scottish isle supernatural horror, then this is just what you've been waiting to see. Looks like it has a few spooky scenes. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Matthew Butler-Hart's The Isle,...

Exclusive: The Victorian-era supernatural tale marks the second feature for Fizz and Ginger Films.

London-based production outfit Fizz and Ginger Films has begun shooting on horror feature The Isle, which stars Game Of Thrones’ Conleth Hill.

Early filming is taking place in Suffolk before moving to Eilean Shona, a remote island off the West coast of Scotland.

Set in 1856, the supernatural horror depicts three shipwrecked sailors who row to a nearby island with four isolated inhabitants. Once there, they discover a mysterious mass graveyard, leaving them desperate to return to the mainland.

Conleth Hill – who plays the eunuch Lord Varys in HBO’s Game Of Thrones – leads a cast that also features Alex Hassell (Cold Mountain), Tori Hart (Two Down), Fisayo Akinade (Lifesaver), Graham Butler (Two Down), Alix Wilton Regan (The Gatehouse), Dickon Tyrrell (The Trial Of Tony Blair), Emma King (Two Down), Joe Bannister (Endeavour) and Ben Lee (Two Down).

Matthew Butler Hart of Fizz and...