Would you look at him: A conversation with Goran Stolevski

Openly gay filmmaker Goran Stolevski was born in Macedonia and emigrated in his youth to Australia. Between 2007 and 2023, he directed nine short films and three features, as well as three episodes of television. His films frequently depict characters at the margins of society grappling with issues of identity. Two of his best-known shorts, You Deserve Everything (2015) and Would You Look at Her (2017), portray queer characters who are forced to navigate difficult situations in an oppressive society. Stolevski won the Rouben Mamoulian Award for You Deserve Everything at the 2016 Sydney Film Festival, and received the Short Filmmaking Award, International at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival for Would You Look at Her.