EastEnders has won Best Soap with a Black Cast or Lead in the Birmingham Black International Film Festival's Music, Video, and Screen Awards (MVSAs). This was chosen by the public. Thank you to everyone who voted!

Congratulations also go to Chucky Venn who won Best Actor.

He was in a hotly-contested category which included Ashley Walters for Inside Men, David Harewood for Homeland, and John Boyega for My Murder.