Goran Stolevski
Directing
Biography
Goran Stolevski is an Australian film director and screenwriter of Macedonian origin. He was born and grew up in North Macedonia before migrating to Australia as a teenager. He studied Creative Arts for a bachelor's at the University of Melbourne and pursued Masters in Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts. He made his debut as a director in 2007 with the short film Ambassador. In 2022, he directed his first feature-length film, "You Won't Be Alone," which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. His second feature film, Of an Age, won the Best Film Award at CinefestOZ in 2022. His short films have screened at over a hundred festivals across six continents, including the Clermont-Ferrand, Melbourne, Raindance, Adelaide, and London Shorts. He is an alumnus of Screen Australia's Talent Escalator initiative. He won the Ruben Mamoulian Best Director Award at the 2016 Sydney Film Festival for "You Deserve Everything" and received the $50,000 Lexus Fellowship for his short film "My Boy Oleg."
Known For
In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.
You Won't Be Alone
A Serbian ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother.
Of an Age
Dita, who, despite never aspiring to be a mother, finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters—Mia, a tiny troublemaker, and Vanesa, a rebellious teenager. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family's struggle to stay together.
Housekeeping for Beginners
Follows Janet Paine, a well-intentioned but deeply insecure Manhattan PR executive with a specialty for smear campaigns.
True-ish
An illicit affair, a mysterious illness, a birth, a death and a reunion. Tony narrates from beyond the grave the strange tragedy of his life.
Blood
A New York novelist who, while attending a family funeral in Vienna, discovers a German relative’s illicit queer love affair with a Jewish man during WW2 – sending him on a journey through the past that changes his future.
All the Boys Are Here
A hard-headed tomboy spots the unlikely solution to all her problems in an all-male religious ritual.
Would You Look at Her
When a Ukrainian actress arrives in Melbourne for a festival performance, her off stage antics reveal the true nature of her visit.
My Boy Oleg
A formerly wealthy cleaning woman comes face to face with the school girl that derailed her life. They are each forced to face the difficult events that first brought them together.
Everything We Wanted
A doctor's tentative romance with the hospital's Arabic interpreter is evolving into something deeper. But everything is not as it seems.