Australian comedy web series The Film Lab has won two awards at the Los Angeles Web Series Festival (LAWEBFEST).
The Film Lab, by Sydney's Swingtime Creative, was nominated in three categories at the festival – the largest and oldest event on the web festival circuit.
The Australian team took home two awards including Best New Comedy Premise, for the creator/producer team and Best Comedy Director, which went to Swingtime managing director, Nicholas Hansen.
The Film Lab star and former Bachelor contestant, Heather Maltman, (Brock) collected the awards on behalf of Swingtime Creative.
"They nailed it," she said. "Two out of three. So proud of them. Wait until you see the speech I gave."
Hansen said he was honoured to recieve recognition at such a big festival.
The Film Lab.
"Winning the Best New Comedy Concept category is a fantastic turn of events for us because it gives us international ownership of this sort of concept for the immediate future," he said.
"It's further incentive for us to attempt to make season 2, which we have already started writing."
The Film Lab, which was initially self-financed and crowdfunded on Indiegogo, has been selected for 10 international web festivals.
It has screened at festivals in Berlin, New York, London, Dublin and Seattle.
Swingtime Creative has also won the a World Gold Promax BDA AWard and been a finalist in the APAC Branded Content Awards – Best Brand Storytelling.