Tribu won Best Full-Length Feature Film at the glittering rites attended by artists and supporters of independent cinema at the Cultural Center of the Philippine’s Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, hosted by Agot Isidro and Sid Lucero.

The Cinemalaya jury declared Tribu as best film “for its grand and graphic depiction of contemporary Tondo, Manila, its raw passion and searing violence, its terrible social conditions and conflicting social mores, and its people’s coruscating embrace of both the sacred and the profane, the filial and the tribal, the tender and the vicious.” As Best Full-Length Feature Film, Tribu received a grant of P200,000 from the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), the Balanghai Trophy and a P1-million Post Production grant from Roadrunner.

Tribu also took home the Best Sound award for Mark Laccay for “its masterful rendering of the noise and hum of the inner cities, the racket and resonance of the asphalt jungle.”