Winner
Metro Manila Film Festival
Best Picture, Best Director (1999)
Muro-ami
Directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya (Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya)

Fredo is a fisherman who has endured more than his share of hardship in life; his wife and child both perished in a boating accident, and today Fredo approaches each trip to the sea with the angry determination of a man out for revenge.
Best Picture, Best Director (1999)
Best Picture, Best Director (2000)
₱60 million box office on a ₱30 million budget
Cesar MontanoFredo
Pen MedinaDado
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