G'day!
I'm Mel Avanzado. I'm a screen producer, writer and director.
I'd love to collaborate on projects which astound!
G'day!
I'm Mel Avanzado. I'm a screen producer, writer and director.
I'd love to collaborate on projects which astound!
Two 14-year-old girls, bored in a western Sydney school, hitch a ride with a stranger to visit a sister in Canberra.
In the age of anxious social media, a coming-of-age tale amidst raunch culture, Only Fans and puberty.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWUn_mLE1Ph5aAwzfOjbMsWeIsSGMNogc8k0ao0/
<R> rated thriller about a female serial killer.
A lone business woman falls asleep in the shuttle bus home from an exhausting conference. The driver notices a boy in the woman's mobile still playing a video.
At the hotel, he wakes her up and goes to the loo as she goes to her room. On his way out, he sees a news report on the TV in the lobby and recognises the boy missing is the one on the woman's mobile.
The police come within minutes but as they tip toe to her room and barge in; she's escaped. The hunt is on.
A devastating ride into hell as Tatiana needs to be stopped from killing young boys.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWUe9aBkq5QjSWjiXA3X7lD_cpq4Twert7A9rA0/
A fun adventure comedy set in the 1980s, about a girl who discovers a key to hidden diamonds in the new house she and her mother have just moved.
Erstwhile, on the other side of the country, three bumbling thieves break out of gaol (jail) and go east.
In the vein of Stranger Things, The Goonies, Stand By Me and John Hughes movies, this ode to arcade games, glam rock and youth exuberance will be an exhilarating ride through the streets of Sydney!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWUkQPcEnto5MTblqabP8QZrnKNEq4OMTVDYMo0/
Set in rural Ausralia in the 1920s, a mother and daughter search for her missing fiancé, which takes them to Europe and the City of Light. An buddy road movie reminiscent of 'Anywhere But Here'.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWUhzybkkbd_dSpTKY2cb_Rb_qgwpRJRFzMitQ0/
My Magnum Opus: an action-adventure and political intrigue drama about modern pirates in Indonesia. An Australian border security naval captain must stop this deadly mafia in the high seas.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbHb4V4yjuZoRGp6bzpOeTrvdJX25TG6lsa-gg0/
All features to hopefully premiere at Berlin, Cannes, Sydney, Venice, Toronto or other major film festival before global distribution.
Currently, writing the best drafts of all films developing them for finance.