A film written and filmed in Lincolnshire has been honoured in Los Angeles.

University of Lincoln lecturer Marcella Forster has won an award for the Best UK Short at a Los Angeles film festival.

Ms Forster, a senior lecturer of media production at the university, said she was surprised to receive the award for her short film Daddy's Girl at the 2009 British Film Awards.

Daddy's Girl is a film about a nine year old girl trying to come to terms with the fact her father has been blinded in a rugby accident.

Lead character May, played by Tyler Anderson, explores the world around her as if she was blind in preparation for her father's return from hospital, which is misinterpreted by her mother and grandmother as misbehaviour.

"When I was 12, my father had cancer of the eyelid," said Ms Forster.

"There was a major worry he was going to go blind, so the film has been developed from that, really."

This was the first year of the Los Angeles British Film Awards, which aims to showcase talented British filmmakers to the American market.

Daddy's Girl was shot in 2007 around areas of Lincoln, Skegness, Mablethorpe and Louth. It has previously been shown at film festivals around the world, in areas of the US and South Africa, as well as at the Cannes Short Film Corner.

Ms Forster has just finished filming her second short film called The Lamb and Flag.

This self-funded short is set in a pub in 1977 during the Queen's Silver Jubilee, and was also filmed in Lincoln.

For more on the film, see Friday's Echo.