Directing

Matthew Victor Pastor

Born 1989-02-03

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."

Acting credits

Walking poster
NR

In this striking meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teenager follows his mother through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

Walking

2023

Butterfly Flower poster
1.0

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.

Butterfly Flower

2017

Down Under poster
NR

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.

Down Under

2015

MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milkman poster
10.0

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.

MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milkman

2018

A Pencil to the Jugular poster
5.0

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.

A Pencil to the Jugular

2021

Love with the Poet poster
NR

Set in Australia, Love with the Poet is an experimental visual feature based on five poems that reflect youth loneliness.

Love with the Poet

MADE IN AUSTRALIA poster
NR

A young man stands naked facing the audience. He is Asian. This is MADE IN AUSTRALIA.

MADE IN AUSTRALIA

2013

Behind the camera

Fun Times poster
NR

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.

Fun Times

2020

Anak poster
NR

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.

Anak

2022

Butterfly Flower poster
1.0

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.

Butterfly Flower

2017

Butterfly Flower poster
1.0

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.

Butterfly Flower

2017

Down Under poster
NR

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.

Down Under

2015

Untitled / Unfinished poster
NR

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.

Untitled / Unfinished

2024

Untitled / Unfinished poster
NR

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.

Untitled / Unfinished

2024

MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milkman poster
10.0

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.

MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milkman

2018

MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milkman poster
10.0

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.

MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milkman

2018

No artwork available
NR

Silence in the Red Light District of Manila.

I Am JUPITER I Am THE BIGGEST PLANET

2016

No artwork available
NR

Silence in the Red Light District of Manila.

I Am JUPITER I Am THE BIGGEST PLANET

2016

A Pencil to the Jugular poster
5.0

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.

A Pencil to the Jugular

2021

A Pencil to the Jugular poster
5.0

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.

A Pencil to the Jugular

2021

A Long Drive poster
NR

Ria and Amos are married Filipino migrants who are having their Australian VISA processed amidst the housing crisis and unprecedented increases to cost of living in 2025. Due to work commitments, they live a long drive away from each other. Struggling with rent, agent fees and the financial commitment it takes to build a pathway to permeant residency, Ria receives a phone call that will make the road forward much more difficult to travel.

A Long Drive

2025

Repent or Perish! poster
NR

As a nation votes to discover its identity, a family struggles to find its own.

Repent or Perish!

2019

Repent or Perish! poster
NR

As a nation votes to discover its identity, a family struggles to find its own.

Repent or Perish!

2019

Melodrama/Random/Melbourne! poster
NR

Presented in Glorious Cinema – O – ke! A feminist documentarian, a pickup artist, and a virgin’s lives collide. Aries Santos is a Fil-Aus feminist documentarian who is struggling to complete her new film. Her subjects are the male members of ‘©TRU MALE DYNAMICS’, a company formed to teach men how to seduce women. Meanwhile, a sex worker named Melody slays into the night. The line between reality and fiction blurs, and blood is shed on the neon-lit streets of Melbourne.

Melodrama/Random/Melbourne!

2018

Melodrama/Random/Melbourne! poster
NR

Presented in Glorious Cinema – O – ke! A feminist documentarian, a pickup artist, and a virgin’s lives collide. Aries Santos is a Fil-Aus feminist documentarian who is struggling to complete her new film. Her subjects are the male members of ‘©TRU MALE DYNAMICS’, a company formed to teach men how to seduce women. Meanwhile, a sex worker named Melody slays into the night. The line between reality and fiction blurs, and blood is shed on the neon-lit streets of Melbourne.

Melodrama/Random/Melbourne!

2018

MADE IN AUSTRALIA poster
NR

A young man stands naked facing the audience. He is Asian. This is MADE IN AUSTRALIA.

MADE IN AUSTRALIA

2013

MADE IN AUSTRALIA poster
NR

A young man stands naked facing the audience. He is Asian. This is MADE IN AUSTRALIA.

MADE IN AUSTRALIA

2013

MADE IN AUSTRALIA poster
NR

A young man stands naked facing the audience. He is Asian. This is MADE IN AUSTRALIA.

MADE IN AUSTRALIA

2013

A Bigger Jail poster
NR

A Bigger Jail is a psychosexual thriller about a murderer released from prison and a young married couple with a secret fetish. Set over the course of 3 days their paths will cross through the intimacy of sex and violence, with consequences that will leave them changed forever.

A Bigger Jail

A Bigger Jail poster
NR

A Bigger Jail is a psychosexual thriller about a murderer released from prison and a young married couple with a secret fetish. Set over the course of 3 days their paths will cross through the intimacy of sex and violence, with consequences that will leave them changed forever.

A Bigger Jail

The Neon Across The Ocean poster
6.0

Set sometime in the not-too-distant future, after the worldwide crisis of 2020, Mandy is a 17-year-old Filipino Australian. In her final year of high school and dealing with her parents impending divorce, she navigates a world driven by a new normal of isolation and fear. Added to this she has a crush on her tutor Serena. Meanwhile, a young girl from the backstreets of Manila tells her story.

The Neon Across The Ocean

2020