Goran Stolevski

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Goran Stolevski (born 1985) is a Macedonian Australian film director and screenwriter. [1] [2] He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2022 film You Won't Be Alone , which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. [3]

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His second feature film, Of an Age , was the winner of the Best Film Award at CinefestOZ in 2022. [4]

Stolevski was born in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia and spent his childhood in Tetovo. [5] At the age of 12, he emigrated to Australia with his family. [5] He is openly gay. [6]

Filmography

Short films

YearTitleDirectorWriterEditorNotes
2007AmbassadorYesYesYes
2008BloodYesYesYes
Picture of a Good WomanYesYesYes
2012Frankie's Big HeartYesNoNo
2015Today Is Not the DayYesYesNo
2016 You Deserve Everything YesYesNoAlso producer
2017Everything We WantedYesYesNo
Would You Look at HerYesYesYes
2018My Boy OlegYesYesNo

Television

YearTitleNotes
2018 Nowhere Boys 3 episodes

Feature films

YearTitleDirectorWriterEditor
2022 You Won't Be Alone YesYesNo
Of an Age YesYesYes
2023 Housekeeping for Beginners YesYesYes

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  5. 1 2 Maličev, Patricija (28 September 2024). "Moji filmi so filmi o pripadanju in ljubezni". Sobotna priloga – Delo (in Slovenian). pp. 52–53.
  6. Stephanie Bunbury, "‘My best friends were Hepburn and Bergman’: Aussie director takes critics by storm". The Age , July 28, 2022.