A cerebral palsy-suffering Hounslow resident has won a documentary short film award with a piece about her life in the borough. 

Joanne Bruce's film A Week In My Life, documenting her daily life of working as a customer service representative at Boots, socialising at the Hogarth Gateway Club and enjoying a Tai Chi session, to simply getting out and about in the community and enjoying life, has won the Best Documentary Short at the One Reeler Film Awards in Los Angeles. 

Bruce and the film's producer, Charlie Druce, decided to make the 12-minute film as part of the Hounslow Council's Summer of Culture and it became a winner at the short film awards alongside films from across the globe. 

Bruce said: "It makes me very proud to talk about my life – my job, the Hogarth Gateway Club, my family. I wanted the film to show people what it's like to live day to day with a disability.  

"I want people to think before they speak. It's great that the Council has supported this project." 

Druce decided to enter the film into the film contest and has been friends with Bruce for 20 years, having met through the Hogarth Gateway Club- an activities and social club for people with disabilities. 

Druce said: "I've wanted to make a film with Joanne. She's a wonderful, kind-hearted person. And funny, too. Her spirit and capacity for life are incredible.  

"Meeting her shifted my mind about what a person with a lifelong disability could achieve. That's the idea of the film.  

"To give Joanne the chance to show us the extraordinary variety of things she gets up to, and in doing so, hopefully, change a few more minds." 

Hounslow Council are presently looking for local cinemas to help screen the award-winning short film, but can be viewed on YouTube now.