Awards

Tied with Aleks Castañeda for Porno.

For his effective orchestration of the technical and artistic elements of filmmaking in crafting a narrative that fulfills the requirements of the romance genre while engaging the interest of audiences and emotionally involving them.

For its competent sound design that renders well the hump and clutter evoking the sense of excitement while providing pregnant pauses and silences that echoed characters' emotional dilemmas.

For its effective use of music to enhance the mood of intimate scenes and heightened the drama particularly emotional scenes and for providing musical complement or counterpoint to characters undergoing particularly acute emotional turbulence.

For its skillful splicing of scenes and images to build up a narrative of romance, lost, and longings slowly revealing itself.