The BBC Big Screen Film Festival has awarded Family Portrait “Best Drama” at a prestigious award ceremony.

The 2006 Big Screen reached its climax with the Awards Ceremony and Screening held at Harbour Lights Picture House in Southampton on May 20th 2006. Rob Brown wrote, directed and produced this powerful short staring Michael J Jackson and Elizabeth Elvin in the roles of Colin and Denise Pilkington.

BBC Film Critic, Mark Kermode, said "I thought it was a very adventurous idea to take a soundtrack of a harrowing telephone call and put on it, what seem to be images of domestic bliss,  but in this context come to be very other.  A very good idea, very professionally and succinctly executed and a very disturbing result - so congratulations to Rob Brown.”