- Writer/Curator Tony Rayns selected Altar (2007) as the first Filipino genre film to screen at the Dragons and Tigers section of the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2008. He also conducted a Q and A with Ilarde after the screening.
- First Filipino filmmaker to win Best Feature Film in an international fantastic film festival, for Sa Ilalim ng Cogon (Beneath the Cogon) at the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, Argentina in 2005.
- Ilarde's films have screened at the Sitges Film Festival (Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya) in Catalan, Spain on three occasions: Ang Babaeng Putik in 2006, Dugo ng Birhen: El Kapitan in 2008, and Pridyider in 2013.
- Ilarde has attended the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) in Puchon, Korea twice: for the sci-fi-actioner Killdroid (with producer Pete Tombs of Mondo Macabro) in 2008, and the erotic-horror-thriller Tusok: The Avenger in 2013. Both films are still unproduced.
- Former Executive Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival, Roger Garcia, co-produced Ilarde's Beneath the Cogon (2005) through his film production outfit Modern Films. Modern Films was originally housed at producer Saul Zaentz's iconic Fantasy Building in Berkeley, California, where Garcia was based.
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