WINNER of 'Best Feature Script' at the * 2025 RFA: Robinson Film Awards* (ITALY)〰️
WINNER of the 'Best Student Short' Award at the * 2022 New York City IO Film Festival (USA) *
WINNER of Best 'Indie Short Film' at the * 2024 Monthly Future of Film Awards* (North Macedonia) *
WINNER of 'Best Horror Short' at the * 2024 Gold Star Movie Awards * (USA)
FINALIST of ‘Best First-Time Feature Script’ at the * 2025 Melbourne International Screenplay Awards* (AUSTRALIA)
WINNER of 'Best Feature Script' at the * 2025 RFA: Robinson Film Awards* (ITALY)〰️ WINNER of the 'Best Student Short' Award at the * 2022 New York City IO Film Festival (USA) * WINNER of Best 'Indie Short Film' at the * 2024 Monthly Future of Film Awards* (North Macedonia) * WINNER of 'Best Horror Short' at the * 2024 Gold Star Movie Awards * (USA) FINALIST of ‘Best First-Time Feature Script’ at the * 2025 Melbourne International Screenplay Awards* (AUSTRALIA)
WRITER. DIRECTOR. EDITOR.
STANISLAV KACAR
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.
FILMS
2024 - 7 mins
A dissociative wanderer contemplates their place in the modern world in this cerebral short film exploring metropolitan liminality and incoherence.
2024 - 25 mins
A young driver flees the city in a personal crisis as a mysterious force in his backseat watches his every move.
2022 - 34 mins
Following a personal tragedy, a young woman passes through her hometown in an effort to reforge her identity.
2021 - 13 mins
An established councilman fears the worst once his estranged brother returns unexpectedly into his life.
OTHER WORK
2021 - 13 mins
Original music and edit created by Stanislav Kacar using heavily edited home videos, documentaries, and infomercials from 1950-1980.
2019 - 5 mins
A short documentary following veteran Australian actor Leo Taylor.
MY STORY
Storytelling means everything to me - and my family.
I grew up with my single mother, the poet Sanja Kacar. The two of us fled Yugoslavia as refugees of war in 1999, becoming Australian citizens shortly after. From as far back as I can remember, my mother’s poetry and flair for emotional storytelling - which always carried themes of pain into endurance, displacement and chaos into meaning and peace - painted my relationship with art and creativity.
Beginning my journey with arts, I began acting from when I was a child, up until my final years of high school when I found myself behind the camera for once, and from there, the expression of filmmaking took hold and never let go.
After graduating in Screen & Media at RMIT, my short films beginning with the student debut Unmade, have been recognised and screened internationally amongst independent film festivals.
My projects often revolve around memory, dreams, unresolved wounds, and unspoken truths which undoubtedly has stemmed from the early seeds of my mother’s poetry and profound impact her story and sacrifice has had on my life.
SELECTED CREDITS
KEY TALENT REGISTRY - SCREENWRITING
WRITER / DIRECTOR / EDITOR
EARLY LATE YEARS - 2024
NIGHT PASSAGE - 2024
LEAVING LILY LANE - 2022
UNMADE - 2021
THE MANIKIN’S SKIN - 2019
CREW
SOCIAL GIANTS - 1ST AD, 2025
FOUND - 2ND AD, 2025
SPOONS - COLOURIST, 2025
INTO DARKNESS - GAFFER, 2023
TEA ? - 1ST AD, 2022
WORK WITH ME
Alongside my own films, I take a small number of editing and videography commissions - narrative, brand, and podcast work, long-form and short-form.
Recently, I have assisted the brand of developmental philosopher Max Stephens as well as the Victorian Greens, managing social media presence and content strategy.
I bring the same philosophy from my film work to commerical projects - with captivating storytelling at the forefront of every piece of media I cut together.
