33 Postcards is a 2011 Australian / Chinese feature film written and directed by Pauline Chan and starring Guy Pearce.

For ten years, Chinese orphan Mei Mei dreams of meeting her Australian sponsor – Dean Randall – and his ‘perfect family’. At 16, when her orphanage travels to Australia to attend the Australian Choir Festival, Mei Mei takes the opportunity to look him up.

What she finds, however, is far from the idyllic life he depicted in his postcards. Initially mismatched and disconnected – the two begin a journey in search of belonging, family, redemption, love and acceptance.

Review by New York Times

NYT Critics' Pick. “Guy Pearce is an award-winning actor with dozens of film and television roles on his résumé, but in “33 Postcards” he is eclipsed by an unknown young actress named Zhu Lin, whose charming performance gives this sweet if not very credible film its heart. Ms. Zhu plays Mei-Mei, a child abandoned at a Chinese orphanage. She finds herself sponsored through a charity by an Australian, Dean Randall (Mr. Pearce), who sends money for her support. He also sends her postcards with idyllic descriptions of his job and family life, but when Mei Mei travels to Sydney with the orphanage’s choir, she learns that this is all a fantasy; he is actually in prison…it’s all in the name of heartstring tugging, and the film, directed by Pauline Chan (“Little White Lies”), does that pretty well. Lincoln Lewis has a nice supporting turn as a young man with a good heart who befriends Mei-Mei.”