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Giving blood to your fantasies!

Giving blood to your fantasies!Giving blood to your fantasies!Giving blood to your fantasies!

G'day!

I'm Mel Avanzado. I'm a screen producer, writer and director. 

I'd love to collaborate on projects which astound!

+61 423 486 928

Giving blood to your fantasies!

Giving blood to your fantasies!Giving blood to your fantasies!Giving blood to your fantasies!

G'day!

I'm Mel Avanzado. I'm a screen producer, writer and director. 

I'd love to collaborate on projects which astound!

+61 423 486 928

In Development: 5 feature films

Jolimont (working title)

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 the allure of raunch culture, Only Fans and puberty.

All Pretty Boys Must Die!

<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.

The Diamond Key

The Diamond Key

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!

Finding Desire

Gulf of Carpentaria

The Diamond Key

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'.

Gulf of Carpentaria

Gulf of Carpentaria

Gulf of Carpentaria

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.

Film Festivals

Gulf of Carpentaria

Gulf of Carpentaria

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.

- Mel Avanzado -

'Giving blood to your fantasies' is a quote from Marlon Brando and it fits perfectly to what we try and do for audiences all around the world: to excite, stimulate, stir up, enrage even, but most of all, move hearts and minds through the power of cinema. 

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WAR: Women's Aussie Rules


WAR: Women's Aussie Rules" (2008) is a celebration of women's passion, camaraderie, organisation and skills in Australian Rules football.   Following the Canberra teams, Ainslie and the representative squad, the Canberra Currency during the 2002 season, players like Kendelle Treloar and coach Shane Gnaden share their experiences and trials against both stereotypes and the 'Antarctic' Canberra winter!  Includes interviews with AFL legend Ron Barassi.

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