You Won't Be Alone

Source: Sundance

‘You Won’t Be Alone’

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, and Hattie Hook star.

Focus brokered the deal with Bankside Films and UTA Independent Films on behalf of the filmmakers. Ceyton and Jennings said Of An Age will be “very different but no less unique”. Investors include Screen Australia, VicScreen, Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund, Kojo Studios and Head Gear Films.

You Won’t Be Alone premiered in Sundance to strong reviews and charts the life of a witch’s soul in various host bodies as she experiences existence. It opened in 147 North American theatres over the weekend and grossed an estimated $125,000.

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