‘Watching movies at MIFF has been a holy winter ritual since I was literally a child,’ says Goran director Stolevski. ‘It’s what kept me going, in fact, for two decades, through many tricky periods as a writer-director.’
‘To have my film premiere – on Opening Night, no less – is the thrill of a lifetime.’
It was honestly just a writing exercise – but then, one night, I was reading a book called Florida by Lauren Groff, and in it there’s a short story about teenagers in Ireland going to a party for the first time. That one detail, about never having gone to a party before, made all these memories start flooding in from my high school years. So I got up and started writing down everything that came to me. And then I had 65% of a screenplay. By 12 June, I had the whole script for Of An Age.
