Funded Chinatown Rain (2008) after visiting Atlantic City on three consecutive weekends (US $6,000).
He is an avid poker player and has played in over six different countries.
Currently has a 3.83 GPA in Graduate School. (2009)
Father was a professional photographer in the 70s.
Awarded Best Dramatic Short Film at the 2010 ZERO film festival in New York for The Empty Playground.
Winner of The Golden Palm at the 2010 Mexico International Film Festival.
Won the 2010 COAHSI Premiere Grant for his upcoming film Goodnight which deals with drug abuse.
Writing a feature film about heroin addiction. (January 2010)
Phil's script for 'Supot' was a finalist at the Starz Denver Screenwriting Competition, a Semi-Finalist at the Showtime Tony Cox Screenwriting Competition and won the Grand Jury Prize at the New York Screenplay Contest.
Phil's upcoming feature film (in the script development stage) was accepted to SAFF, the Southeast Asia Film Financing - Project Market in Singapore.
Phil's MFA thesis film from NYU Tisch 'Supot' (filmed in a small rural province in Cavite, Philippines) had its World Premiere at the 21st Busan International Film Festival. This is the biggest film festival in Asia.