Goran Stolevski (b. 1978)
Alias:
Горан Столевски
Born:
April 1, 1978
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."