BROTHERS Matthew and Michael Rowney from Burgess Hill have won an international award for their latest short film.

Odilo Fabian or (The Possibility of Impossible Dreams) received one of three screenwriting accolades at the Hollywood International Moving Picture Film Festival just as filming finished on the Sussex-based production.

Michael, who wrote the screenplay late last year, said: “Winning this award was completely unexpected.

“Matthew entered my script as a surprise, and we heard I’d won just before we entered the final block of filming.

“It’s a first for us to win an award while we’re still in the process of making the film, so we hope that this is the first of many more to come.”

The fantasy film tells the story of Odilo Fabian, an optimist on the outskirts of a town called Doubt, who uses wishes and nature to grow himself a real chance at love.

Filming took place in Haywards Heath’s Borde Hill Gardens in March and early April, before moving to Trinity Church in Lewes.