Benito Bautista won the award for Best Cinematography at the New York International Film and Video Festival in 2006 for his feature length documentary film, The Gift of Barong. This film is about two generations of Filipino-American surfers from the Bay Area who travel to the Philippines to immerse in the culture, surf the islands and rediscover themselves.
Benito is also a writer, director, producer, sound recordist, editor and founder of Wanderlustproject Film, a San Francisco based company. He has recently completed work on his short film Number Four, and served as a production assistant for the critically-acclaimed Gus Van Sant motion picture Milk, starring Sean Penn.
