Due to an error made at HeatGay, the gay awards section of the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival (FICEB), COLT Studio Group's Kristofer Weston was named Best Director for Buckshot Productions' HARD Studies, when, in fact, the real winner was Hot House Entertainment's Steven Scarborough for The Missing.
How the mixup occurred is unclear, but the misinformation was also posted on the FICEB website. The correction has been made and now Scarborough's name appears on the site's winners' list.
On hearing the news, a delighted Scarborough said, "The Barcelona Festival is one of Europe’s largest erotic film festivals and being honored by their judges is quite an honor. I feel blessed to be working with so many talented performers — and my production team at Hot House is, quite honestly, the finest I’ve ever worked with in all my twenty years of experience.”
In addition to Scarborough's HeatGay Best Director win, The Missinghas been honored in the U.S. twice this year as Best Leather Video by the GAYVN Awards and by Gay Chicago magazine's Grabby Awards.
