Directing

Matthew Victor Pastor

Born February 3, 1989 (age 37)

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 …

Known For

WalkingWalking · 2023
Walking
2023
MovieDrama
In this striking meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teenager follows his mother through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
Fun TimesFun Times · 2020
Fun Times
2020
Movie
Sammy is a teenager with disenfranchised violent men all around him. Kate watches Sammy from across the hall of their commission flats. This is the story of their inevitable demise. Based on the creator child abuse and funded through screen Australia diversity fund.
Butterfly FlowerButterfly Flower · 2017
Butterfly Flower
1.02017
MovieDrama
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.
AnakAnak · 2022
Anak
2022
MovieDrama
Masculinity, race and boyhood simmer in this stylish slow-cinema debut about a Filipino-Australian father and his six-year-old son, who are navigating a family divorce. Exploring the complexities of family, society and culture that shape young Filipinos, this feature debut from rising filmmaker Caleb Ribates depicts the tender relationship between an immigrant father and his young son as they deal with being abandoned by the boy’s mother. With its evocative black-and-white cinematography, long takes and naturalistic dialogue, Anak follows in the footsteps of slow-cinema masters like Lav Diaz and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, while finding an intimacy and tonal register that is all Ribates’ own.
Down UnderDown Under · 2015
Down Under
2015
MovieDramaMystery
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.
MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs MilkmanMAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milkman · 2018
MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milkman
10.02018
MovieActionDrama
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.
Untitled / UnfinishedUntitled / Unfinished · 2024
Untitled / Unfinished
2024
Movie
There is a video of racist attack filmed in Melbourne and posted on Tik Tok. The viral video with millions of views and thousands of hate comments sends the filmmaker who filmed the incident into an existential crisis. This is his story.
A Pencil to the JugularA Pencil to the Jugular · 2021
A Pencil to the Jugular
5.02021
MovieDrama
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.

Filmography

Sort