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UK-based sales agent Rapt Films International has acquired international sales rights outside of Australia and New Zealand for Gabriel Carrubba’s debut feature Sunflower.

Sunflower premiered at Sydney Film Festival in June last year, going on to further Australian events including Melbourne the following month.

The semi-autobiographical film follows a teenage boy who struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working-class suburbs of Melbourne. It stars Liam Mollica, alongside Luke J. Morgan, Olivia Fildes, Daniel Halmarick and Elias Anton.

Writer-director Carrubba produced the film alongside Zane Borg for Australia’s Pancake Originals.

Sunflower...

If there’s one takeaway from the LGBTQ narrative films that came into the world and across our screens this year, it’s the sheer variety of the stories there are to tell.

From real-world historical biopics and inspirational sports dramas, to tender love stories and raunchy comedies, there really was something for everyone this year. Captivating characters, fearless performances and narrative tapestries that defy convention and troublesome tropes all reigned supreme. As such, here are some of the best we got.

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A new movie from the director of “Weekend” starring the Hot Priest from “Fleabag” and everyone’s favorite internet boyfriend should be enough to catch the interest of anyone listening — and “All of Us Strangers” lives up to that potential and then some. This equal parts sexy and emotionally devastating romance stars Andrew Scott as an isolated writer who,...

The Australian drama premiered at Cannes and stars Cate Blanchett.

Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy leads the nominations for the 2024 Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) Awards with 12 nods, closely followed by horror Talk To Me with 11 nominations.

The New Boy is up for best film, actress for Cate Blanchett and actor for newcomer Aswan Reid while Australian Indigenous filmmaker Thornton is nominated for best director, screenplay and cinematography.

The film is set in 1940s Australia and stars Blanchett (who also serves as a producer) as a nun who takes in a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy. It...

Hattie Hook, Elias Anton and Thom Green in Of An Age Photo: courtesy of Organic

Goran Stolevski wowed critics last year with his mysterious Eastern European fable You Won’t Be Alone, so when I heard that he had completed his second film, I had to talk with him about it. Of An Age is set in the suburbs of Melbourne in 1999 and then later in 2010, and it follows young Serbian-born immigrant Kol (Elias Anton), a ballroom dancer who is due at the final of a big competition when his dance partner Ebony (Hattie Hook) phones him to say that she has woken up on a beach in an unfamiliar town following a night of heavy drinking. Plans are thrown into disarray as Kol goes to find her, but it’s what happens between him and her brother Adam (Thom Green) along the way which will change the course of his whole life.

For some teenagers, growing up is all about trying to stand out and be noticed. For others, it’s all about trying to hide.

In the suburbs of Melbourne in 1999, Serbian-born Kol (Elias Anton) is getting into the costume which he plans to wear for the ballroom dancing contest final – happening that very day – when he receives a frantic phone call from his dance partner, Ebony (Hattie Hook). Having begged the money for the call from a stranger, she delivers a tale of woe about having gone off on a boat with a boy – not just any boy, because she’s not like that, you know, but one she really liked – and had a few drinks but not that many, honest – and woken up on beach in a small town which could, frankly, be just about anywhere. By the time they figure it out, getting there...

Clockwise from top left: Cocaine Bear (Universal Pictures), Red, White & Royal Blue (Amazon), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Paramount Pictures)Photo: The A.V. Club

Are you ready to do the streaming-service shuffle? You may have noticed that many catalog titles and new releases ping-pong around to different streaming...

If you’re looking for a highly-rated drama movie to enjoy this weekend, look no further than the newest addition to Peacock’s library. After its February 2023 theatrical debut, “Of an Age” will soon be available to stream on-demand at home. The new LGBTQ film premieres on Peacock on Friday, April 7. Whether you weren’t able to catch it in theaters or you loved it so much that you want to see it again, make sure you don’t miss out. You can watch with a subscription to Peacock.

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The LGBTQ story explores the idea of finding new love in an unlikely place. “Of an Age,” starring Elias Anton, Thom Green, and Hattie Hook, is set in 1999. It follows 17-year-old Kol,...

Of an Age Review — Of an Age (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Goran Stolevski and starring Thom Green, Elias Anton, Hattie Hook, Toby Derrick, Grace Graznak, Matthew Page, Jessica Lu, Kasuni Imbulana, Jack Kenny, Sam Perry, Milijana Cancar and Verity Higgins. Goran Stolevski’s new film, Of an Age, is a [...]

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The title that saw Riz Ahmed stifle laughter, the press room crack up and Allison Williams murmur “no comment” at Oscar nominations last month hits theaters today as ShortsTV presents Oscar Nominated Short Films at circa 380 locations in 75 markets.

The program, three feature-length presentations of the five nominees for Live Action, Animated and Documentary short films, will expand to 500-600 screens by Academy Awards week. Exhibitors can play any or all of the trio. Some are splitting the doc shorts, at 160 minutes, in two. “We leave that up to theaters,” said ShortsTV founder-ceo Carter Pilcher. My Year Of Dicks is an animation entry.

ShortsTV has been releasing these theatrically for 18 years and they do pretty well, hitting 3.5 million in box office pre-Covid. That fell to 1.8 million in 2021 but Pilcher is hoping for a rebound, calling this year’s crop “absolutely some of the best and most audience-friendly films we’ve...

For fans of “Weekend,” “Before Sunrise” and other regret-tinged romances about what-might-have-beens and what-were-nots, “Of an Age” just might be the devastating cinematic kick you need — and a reason to rue the one who’ll never get away.

Its director, Goran Stolevski, made a modest splash at Sundance and in theaters last year with his directorial debut, the witchy, body-jumping folk horror tale “You Might Be Alone” for Focus Features. He reteams with the prestige distributor for “Of an Age,” which finds the director switching up genres but still laying down a throughline: The sexy Aussie-set gay romance is about bodies, after all, and the way they bend toward time and desire.

“All my films could really be called ‘You Won’t Be Alone,’” the Macedonian-born, Australian-based filmmaker told IndieWire over a recent Zoom interview. “It’s just that I’ve already used that title.” The out-gay director is charmingly self-effacing.

Written and directed by Goran Stolevski, Of an Age will tug at the heartstrings. It’s a tender coming of age that explores the main character coming to terms with being queer while also facing prejudice regarding his Serbian heritage in the late 90s. The film is earnest and full of yearning and intimacy, elevated by the performances of its lead actors who, even in the film’s most abrupt moments, have so much chemistry to keep audiences watching.

Set in 1999 Australia, Of an Age follows 18-year-old Kol (Elias Anton), a Serbian-born budding ballroom dancer with his whole life ahead of him. When his friend and dance partner, Ebony (Hattie Hook) finds herself in another town on the morning of their final competition, Kol calls Ebony’s older brother Adam (Thom Green) to help. On the drive, Kol and Adam connect, and there’s an intensity to their relationship that Kol,...

"Young people in love" has been a staple of storytelling going back as far as Romeo & Juliet, and surely even further. The combination of innocence and imagination, topped off with self-discovery and bittersweet emotion, has served as an endless source of inspiration for storytellers, in part because those stories never really age. Regardless of sexuality, gender, or other societal constructs, everyone feels like an outcast at some point, and everybody spends time unsure of what to do with their life. These timeless themes form the backbone of Of An Age, a coming-of-age romantic drama set in Melbourne, Australia.

Written and directed by Goran Stolevski, Of An Age stars Elias Anton as Kol, a Serbian-born Australian boy who falls in love with his best friend's brother, played by Thom Green. Though initially set over the course of a single 24-hour period, Of An Age does a remarkable job of showing...

Focus Features was behind such memorable gay movies as Brokeback Mountain and Milk. They keep their tradition alive with a new Australian film from director Goran Stolevski. Of an Age will not match those landmark films in terms of either box office or awards glory, but it could touch audiences that seek it out. In the tradition of an earlier gay indie movie, Weekend, which unfolded over the course of just a couple of days, this new picture proves that economy can be a virtue.

The film opens strikingly with a young woman, Ebony (newcomer Hattie Hook), waking up on a beach outside Melbourne as waves crash over her. The time is 1999, so she has to find a pay phone to call for help. She reaches Kolya (Elias Anton), a fellow teenager who was supposed to compete with her in a dance contest that morning. He is dressed in a...

The blush of first love can be electrifying, but also wholly disorienting. There’s a way in which someone’s smile can muster up vexing emotions that feel visceral and involuntary. Writer-director Goran Stolevski’s sophomore effort, “Of an Age,” spends the bulk of its runtime capturing such a blush, and then pushes audiences and characters alike to revisit it anew with the added wistfulness of hindsight. The Australian production is a warm-hearted gem, pulsating with lustful tenderness (and tender lust) as it sketches what first love can feel like, and asking whether it can ever endure.

The year is 1999. It is a sweltering summer day and Kol (Elias Anton) is freaking out. The 17-year-old is supposed to be basking in anticipation of what promises to be a fateful day at the Australian Dance finals, only a frantic call from his dance partner Ebony (Hattie Hook) has set his morning into disarray.

The official poster for the upcoming drama from writer/director Goran Stolevski, Of An Age, has just been released, and you can check it out right here (see below) on CinemaNerdz!

Of An Age is set in the summer of 1999 as a 17-year-old Serbian born, Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother.

About The Film Genre: Drama Cast: Elias Anton, Thom Green, Hattie Hook Director: Goran Stolevski Screenplay: Goran Stolevski Producer: Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings

Of An Age is in select theaters on February 10, 2023

and expanding on February 17, 2023!

For More Information, Please Visit:

Official Site / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / #OfAnAge

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Focus Features has just released the official trailer for Of An Age, the new film from writer/director Goran Stolevski. The film will be in select theaters on February 10, 2023 and expanding on February 17, 2023.

Hattie Hook (from left) stars as Ebony, Thom Green as Adam, and Elias Anton as Kol in director Goran Stolevski’s “Of An Age,” a Focus Features release. Credit: Ben King / © Of An Age Films Pty Ltd.

Of An Age is set in the summer of 1999 as a 17-year-old Serbian born, Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother.

About The Film

Genre: Drama Cast: Elias Anton, Thom Green, Hattie Hook Director: Goran Stolevski Screenplay: Goran Stolevski Producer: Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings

Of An Age is in select theaters on Friday, February 10, 2023!

For More Information, Please Visit:

Official Site / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / #OfAnAge

The post Official Trailer Released...

One of the most curious cases in cinema this year was the reception of Goran Stolevski’s debut feature You Won’t Be Alone. While widely praised, even landing on a handful of best-of-the-year lists, the frustratingly turgid Malick rip-off held firm as my least favorite film of 2022––at least until a recent viewing of Jaume Collet-Serra’s career nadir. So, the emerging Macedonian director can only go up from here.

With the arrival of the new trailer for his follow-up Of An Age, it certainly looks like he has, entering the realm of more grounded drama with this story of queer romance. Led by Elias Anton, Thom Green, and Hattie Hook, the film is set in the summer of 1999 as a 17-year-old Serbian-born, Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother.

Ahead of a February release, see the trailer below.

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"Will it last a moment… or a lifetime?" Focus Features has revealed an official trailer for an indie romantic drama titled Of An Age, the next film from director Goran Stolevski, who also premiered You Won't Be Alone earlier this year at Sundance. Of An Age recently premiered at the 2022 Melbourne Film Festival and will be out in US theaters in February. The film stars Elias Anton as Kol, a Serbian immigrant in Australia who enters a brief but intense gay romance with Adam (Thom Green), the brother of his ballroom dance partner Ebony (Hattie Hook). He is an ambitious young dancer who gets caught up in "an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother." Sounds spicy. It's described by the festival as "a heart-meltingly tender, quintessentially Melbourne queer coming-of-age tale that will make you swoon from beginning to end." From the looks of it, this looks...

Exclusive: On the heels of releasing Goran Stolevski’s feature directorial debut You Won’t Be Alone, Focus Features is re-teaming with the Macedonian-Australian filmmaker on his second feature, Of An Age.

Focus has scheduled Of An Age for February 10, 2023, with a national expansion on February 17. Universal has offshore rights sans Australia.

Written, directed, and edited by Stolevski, the movie is set in the summer of 1999 as a 17-year-old Serbian-born Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother. Pic stars Elias Anton, Thom Green and Hattie Hook.

Of An Age made its debut in Australia this summer as the opening-night film at the Melbourne Film Festival and went on to claim one of Australia’s most coveted film prizes at Miff@CinefestOZ.

Causeway Films’ Kristina Ceyton and Samantha Jennings produced the film. Investors are Screen Australia, VicScreen, Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund,...

Film premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival.

Focus Features has set a February 10 2023 theatrical release for Of An Age, You Won’t Be Alone Macedonian-Australian director Goran Stolevski’s follow-up film.

The feature debuted in Australia over the summer as the opening night selection at Melbourne International Film Festival and went on to claim a prize of nearly of nearly 70,000 at Australia’s Miff@CinefestOZ.

Of An Age will open in limited release before expanding nationally on February 17. Focus is distributing in the US with Universal Pictures International handling international distribution excluding Australia.

Stolevski’s sophomore film is set in...

Writer and director Goran Stolevski has had a whirlwind two years. He recently returned to Australia after shooting his third film, “Housekeeping for Beginners” in Skopje, North Macedonia to attend the world premier of his second film “Of An Age.” That took him to the Melbourne International Film Festival and before traveling on to Western Australia for CinefestOz where the film won the festival’s only recurring award, and one of the industry’s richest, worth A100,000.

The Macedonian-born, Melbourne-raised film maker broke onto the international stage earlier this year with his feature debut “You Won’t Be Alone”, a supernatural folk-horror tale about a girl who becomes a shape-shifter in a 19th century Macedonian village. The film won critical acclaim at Sundance and received a limited theatrical release in the U.S. through Focus Features, which also holds worldwide distribution rights.

For all that, Stolevski is no overnight sensation.

He...

Richard Roxburgh named this year’s CinefestOZ Screen Legend.

Goran Stolevski’s Australian drama Of An Age has won the CinefestOZ Film Prize of nearly 70,000.

The prize, awarded on Saturday (August 27) at the 15th CinefestOZ Film Festival in Western Australia, is open to new Australian-made films and considered one of the richest in the country.

Of An Age marks the second feature of Macedonia-born, Australia-based writer-director Stolevski and depicts a romance between two young men – played by Elias Anton and Thom Green – in the suburbs of Melbourne over one hot summer’s day in 1999.

It was acquired by Focus Features...

Of An Age wrapped production in Australia last December.

Following the opening weekend of Goran Stolevski’s You Won’t Be Alone at the North American box office Focus Features has acquired the filmmaker’s second feature Of An Age.

Stolevski will direct from his screenplay and is collaborating once again with producers Kristina Ceyton and Samantha Jennings of Causeway Films. Production wrapped in Australia last December.

Of An Age takes place in summer 1999 as a 17-year-old Serbian-born Australian amateur ballroom dancer tumbles into an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother. Elias Anton, Thom Green,...

Focus Features has picked up Of An Age, the second feature by writer/director Goran Stolevski.

The announcement comes as the distributor presents the helmer’s debut feature, You Won’t Be Alone — about a witch struggling for human connection in 19th century rural Macedonia — this weekend in limited release.

Of An Age is set in the summer of 1999 as a 17-year-old Serbian born, Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother. It stars Elias Anton, Thom Green, and Hattie Hook.

The film wrapped production this past December in Australia with Causeway Films’ Kristina Ceyton and Samantha Jennings producing.

International sales partners are Bankside Films; investors are Screen Australia, VicScreen, Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund, Kojo Studios and Head Gear Films.

Bankside Films and UTA negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.

Stolevski, Ceyton and Jennings said: “We’re absolutely...

The title is the follow-up to Stolevski’s debut, Sundance hit ‘You Won’t Be Alone’.

London-based Bankside Films has acquired Australian filmmaker Goran Stolevski’s Of An Age for worldwide sales, his second feature following buzzy Sundance premiere You Won’t Be Alone, and released a first-look image.

Of An Age is written and directed by Stolevski, and set in Melbourne, Australia in 1999. A 17-year-old Serbian immigrant named Kol is preparing for the finals of an Australian dance contest when he receives a distressed call from his dance partner Ebony, who has woken up on a beach in an unfamiliar town after a big night out.

Kriv Stenders.

Kriv Stenders is set to direct new feature Australia Day, produced by Foxtel and Hoodlum, led by Bryan Brown and written by Stephen M. Irwin (Secrets & Lies).

Due to start shooting in Brisbane on August 22, the film will also star Shari Sebbens (The Sapphires, The Gods of Wheat Street), Sean Keenan (Lockie Leonard, Glitch), Matthew Le Nevez (The Kettering Incident, Offspring), Jenny Wu, Daniel Webber, Elias Anton, Isabelle Cornish and Phoenix Raei..

Speaking to If, Foxtel's Head of Drama Penny Win described the feature, set in Brisbane over 12 hours, as "the other side of Australia Day".

"It.s been with us for two or three years, long before the current topical discussion of racism in Australia. It.s showing Australia Day from the other side. It.s about an Australian farmer, a Chinese illegal immigrant, a Persian family and an Indigenous girl. The structure of it is very like [2004 Oscar winner] Crash.

Elias Anton as Danny Kelly

ABC TV has announced its new four-part drama series, Barracuda, starring Rachel Griffiths and Matt Nable, will air on Sunday nights leading up to the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Barracuda, directed by Robert Connelly, is set in Melbourne during 1996 as the golden age of Australian swimming begins. A scholarship to an exclusive boys. school brings 16-year-old Danny Kelly, played by newcomer Elias Anton, one step closer to his ultimate goal - winning Olympic gold. Barracuda, based the book by award-winning novelist Christos Tsiolkas., is a story about identity, obsession, desire, the dizzy heights of success and the terrifying risk of failure. . Initially, Danny struggles to find his place in the prestigious social circles of the private boys school. However, under the charge of highly regarded coach Frank Torma and a friendship/rivalry with teammate Martin Taylor, Danny is soon on track to become Australia.s youngest swimming champion,...