 Upon moving back to Manila, he got involved in television musicals and eventually co-directed the film "Binhi" with Butch Perez.He also directed the movies "Virgin Forest", "Scorpio Nights", "Unfaithful Wife", and the "Manananggal" episode of "Shake, Rattle and Roll I".In 1986 he started co-directing films with Lore Reyes, with whom he shared directing credits for "Shake Rattle & Roll 2", "Shake Rattle & Roll 3", "Shake Rattle & Roll 4", "Baby Love", and more than twenty other films to date.