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MELODRAMA / RANDOM / MELBOURNE!
MELODRAMA / RANDOM / MELBOURNE! is an Australian feature film released in 2018. Directed by Matthew Victor Pastor, and co-written by Celina Yuen it is part two in the Filipino Australian trilogy. Filmed in Melbourne, Australia it was awarded 'Best Musical Score' at the 2018 Sinag Maynila Film Festival headed by Solar Entertainment Corporation and film director Brillante Mendoza. The films Australian premiere is at the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival .



Filipino-Australian identity
"Here, it clicks. Talking heads become characters, and red-eyed accounts become disheartening stories of everyday race and gender oppression. Conversations start to carry greater emotion and weight. All of which contributes to its immensely fascinating experiment in structure, and it’s through this narrative flip-flopping that Pastor’s film depicts the Fil-Australian existence with boundless cinematic vigor..." - Unreel.PH