A Wasted Night, a short film which he completed as a course assignment, won the Best Foreign Short Film Award at the Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival in 2012. The film has since gone on to win multiple awards and screen in over twenty international film festivals. Filippo also wrote and directed The House Job, for which he received the award for Best Director and Best Foreign Short Film at the Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival. That same year, the film also won the Special Jury Prize for a Short at the Raindance Film Festival and included in this prize was the opportunity to create the Official Trailer for the Festival for which he has recently received a Young Director Award for the trailer during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.