If one of Australia's most exciting emerging filmmakers, Goran Stolevski, felt validation at being named one of industry bible Variety's 10 directors to watch in 2022, then he's really good at hiding it. “I'm not sure what that means beyond that some development executives in Los Angeles know me. Does that make me famous? I don't think so,” he says, erupting into the disarmingly goofy cackle that regularly punctuates our chat.
Stolevski is adept at cutting himself down. Last night he was editing his third feature, , starring the Romanian actor Anamaria Marinca. She was so impressive as one of two gendershifting witches in Stolevski's startling 2022 feature debut , alongside Noomi Rapace and Alice Englert. On leaving the edit to have dinner with friends and husband Matthew Page, a researcher at Monash University, Stolevski recalls thinking, “Oh my
