Awards

an "ambitious, urgent and passionate film about the underside of contemporary urban life." Tied with Axelle Ropert for Miss and the Doctors (2013).

For painting credibly and powerfully the inner cities of Manila as particularly embodied in its dingy old theaters and other crumbling edifices making them representative of a person's struggle to rise from the shadows and dark interstices of his shadowland.

Tied with The Good Life (2013).