 He is credited for reintroducing to the modern local film industry the now forgotten film "Secreto de confesión," the first locally produced film spoken and sung in Spanish ("la primera película hablada y cantada en español producida en Filipinas").His efforts to bring back the Filipino national identity based on Spanish have led some critics, such as poet-academician Edmundo Farolán and poet-novelist Gilbert Luis R. Centina III, to call him "El Don Quixote Filipino.