Matthew Victor Pastor
Biography: Matthew Victor Pastor is a Filipino Australian film director. His feature films explore Asian Australian identity, and tell Filipino Australian stories. An alumnus of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne Faculty of VCA and MCM, his feature film Melodrama/Random/Melbourne had its Australian premiere at the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival, and was named Top Five Films for the week in The Age. The film was also nominated for the 67th edition of the FAMAS Award (Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award) in the music category for his composer Fergus Cronkite (Andrew Tran). Film critic Adrian Martin has called Pastor "an energetic and prolific filmmaker worth keeping tabs on."
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 03, 1989
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Walking
2023-08-07
Walking
Overview: In this striking meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teenager follows his mother through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2023-08-07
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Down Under
2015-05-04
Down Under
Overview: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A boy sits in a run down hotel. A girl rides a motorcycle through the darkness. This is their story.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-04
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MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milkman
2018-11-24
MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milkman
Overview: The Milk Man, a psychopathic murderer who preys upon women. Pinoy Boy, the world’s deadliest Filipino who is tasked with tracking him down. Angelo, the filmmaker who created them and is struggling to find an ending as the lines between his reality and the film blur. Underground auteur Matthew Victor Pastor, aka MVP, attacks racism, gender, love and serial killing in his most free-form, assured, challenging film to-date; the final chapter of his Filo-Aus Trilogy.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-24
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Butterfly Flower
2017-11-02
Butterfly Flower
Overview: It’s Valentine’s Day, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia. A Vietnamese prostitute named Pisces is conned to her cocoon. She searches for true love, and the search which will define her.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-02
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Love with the Poet
Love with the Poet
Overview: Set in Australia, Love with the Poet is an experimental visual feature based on five poems that reflect youth loneliness.
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Original Language: en
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A Pencil to the Jugular
2021-04-25
A Pencil to the Jugular
Overview: March 2020, a worldwide catastrophic event unfolds, as an ensemble of young migrants' lives fall apart. Libra stares down the drop of a tall building, Razor deals drugs for flights back to the Philippines, Amanda is the survivor of an assault, Ying arrives from China, and Lit Phil is on the run. Meanwhile a young man with dark desires roams the streets. Through the chaos these lives will cross paths and a pencil will be taken to the jugular.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-25
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