Calcutta girl Ashwika Kapur has been nominated for a prestigious award for her film Sirocco - How a Dud Became a Stud a little less than a year after she became the youngest and the first woman to win The Green Oscar.

The nomination is in the Marian Zunz Newcomer category for the Grand Teton Awards of the Jackson Hole Wildlife film festival in the US.

"The Wildscreen Panda Awards (The Green Oscar) and the Jackson Hole awards are two of the most prestigious awards in the wildlife and natural history film industry and I had entered my film only in these two top festivals. It's unbelievable that I won the Panda and have been shortlisted for Jackson Hole," said the 27-year-old filmmaker, who made the film about one of the critically endangered bird species in the world - the flightless Kakapo parrot native to New Zealand - as part of her degree from the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 2014.