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."