‘Hotel Rwanda’ writers honored

Keir Pearson and Terry George, who wrote “Hotel Rwanda,” and Michael Kang, who wrote “The Motel,” won the feature film awards Wednesday at the annual Humanitas Prizes, which honor film and TV scripts that “entertain, engage and enrich the viewing public.”

Television winners included Ruben Santiago-Hudson for the HBO movie “Lackawanna Blues,” John Wells for an episode of NBC’s “The West Wing” titled “NSF Thurmont,” Kelly Ward and Cliff MacGillivray for an episode of PBS’ “Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks” titled “Waking Thor,” and Karen Leigh Hopkins and Alan Marc Levy for ABC Family’s “Searching for David’s Heart.”