Erik Matti wins Best Director of a Scripted TV Program for an episode of ‘Food Lore’

Thank you #ContentAsia for the honor of winning the best director for our episode #IslandofDreams. (Photo: Erik Matti/Facebook)

Another feather has been added to Erik Matti’s cap after he won the Best Director of a Scripted TV Program at the ContentAsia Awards 2020 for the Philippine episode of HBO Asia’s “Food Lore.”

Matti directed the eight-part series’ “Island of Dreams” episode, which tells the story of Nieves, played by Angeli Bayani, who leaves her family to work as a domestic helper in Manila. When she returns to her hometown, Nieves realizes how things changed between her and her loved ones.

“Thank you #ContentAsia for the honor of winning the best director for our episode #IslandofDreams,” Matti wrote in a Facebook post.

“I’m sharing this award with the whole cast and crew who worked hard on this personal story of mine,” he added.

In another post, Matti said his win is “good news for me and my partner Dondon Monteverde. [T]hese past few months were hard on us thinking of how we could move forward in this dire situation our film industry is in.”

https://www.facebook.com/erikmatti/posts/10157636825966446

Reality Entertainment also shared the news on its social media accounts, congratulating the filmmaker for his another accolade.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEb4bJxjRut/

Matti also thanked Michiko Yamamoto who wrote the script for the “Island of Dreams.”

Aside from the Filipino director, “Food Lore,” the whole series itself, was also named as Best Asian Drama for a Regional/International Market.

The winners were announced by the ContentAsia through a Facebook live video.

According to its website, the ContentAsia Awards is owned and operated by ContentAsia, “a 14-year-old information platform curated to offer insights into Asia’s content environment.”