The Age said: "In the spirit of Godard and Wong Kar-Wai, local writer-director Matthew Victor Pastor throws every available idea into this wild goose chase through Melbourne after dark... An arresting introduction to a talent going places." The film premiered at the 2018 Sinag Maynila Film Festival and was awarded Best Original Score (Fergus Cronkite). 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). In a negative review, Stephanie Mayo of Concept News Central said: "Twenty minutes into the movie, I walked out of the cinema. I could no longer endure the film. I thought it pretentious and messy, and the sex talk stilted." Part 3 Maganda! Pinoy Boy vs Milk Man had its premiere at Monster Fest. Glenn Cochrane of Fakeshemp.net said, "There isn't a filmmaker in Australia as distinctive or eccentric, and what MVP puts on the screen is the entire inner-workings of his mind. MAGANDA is a culmination of his past work and serves as a self-inflicted exorcism of his mind's congestion." 2020 Trilogy He is in post-production on a number of diverse Asian Australian films dealing with social issues unique to the Australian landscape. With these projects currently in post-production If Magazine coined him, "Australia's most prolific filmmaker". 2020 embarks production of his thematic 2020 trilogy capturing the Future, Present & Past of the global pandemic. He explains the process of making the 2020 Trilogy in Issue 97 of Senses of Cinema. "The two films I was working on in early 2020 would eventually become 1 and 2 of the trilogy: The Neon Across the ocean and A Pencil to the Jugular. The rapid changes in society caused me great anxiety and loneliness. The anxiety and isolation are predominant moods felt through the films. The pandemic is not over and globally this is something we can’t even comprehend. Even when these films are completed and released a feeling of melancholy in society will linger, an unresolved pain." The Neon Across the Ocean world premiered at the 44th São Paulo International Film Festival with some of the worlds first corona virus themed films like Coronation (2020 film) by Ai Weiwei. The second installment in the trilogy world premiered at the 43rd Moscow International Film Festival. The film explores some of the social and racial