Sofia Bohdanowicz is a Canadian filmmaker. She made her feature film
directorial debut in 2016 with Never Eat Alone. Her second feature
film, Maison du Bonheur, was a finalist for the Rogers Best Canadian
Film Award at the 2018 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. Her
third feature film, MS Slavic 7, which she co-directed with actress
Deragh Campbell, had its world premiere at the 69th Berlin
International Film Festival. She has won several accolades for her
work, including the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics
Association in 2018.After directing several short films since 2009,
Bohdanowicz made her feature film directorial debut in 2016 with Never
Eat Alone. The film follows a lonely grandmother as she tries to
reconnect with an ex-boyfriend from her youth. After premiering at the
Vancouver International Film Festival, it screened at the Buenos Aires
International Festival of Independent Cinema as part of a 2017
retrospective of Bohdanowicz's work.Her second feature film, Maison du
Bonheur, which profiles 77-year-old Juliane Sellam, a French
astrologer living in Montmartre, was a finalist for the Rogers Best
Canadian Film Award at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2018. The film premiered at the Buenos Aires International Festival of
Independent Cinema on April 23, 2017, and had a limited theatrical
release in the U.S. and Canada in 2018. The Globe and Mail's Barry
Hertz named the film one of his top 10 films of 2018, writing "A
supremely thoughtful and careful study of one elderly Parisian woman,
Maison du bonheur is as revealing as it is honest and sincere,"
adding, "This is a film to seek out and cherish.†The New York
Times' Glenn Kenny selected the film as a Critics' Pick and called it
"a profound delight."Her collaborations with actress Deragh Campbell
have screened at festivals around the world. Since 2016, Campbell has
portrayed the character of Audrey Benac in three of Bohdanowicz's
filmsâ€"Never Eat Alone, Veslemøy's Song (2018), and MS Slavic 7
(2019), the latter of which Campbell co-directed. Never Eat Alone
premiered in the Future//Present section of the 2016 Vancouver
International Film Festival; Veslemøy's Song, a short film, premiered
at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival and was named by the Toronto
International Film Festival to its annual year-end Canada's Top Ten
list; MS Slavic 7 had its world premiere at the 69th Berlin
International Film Festival and screened at the annual New
Directors/New Films Festival.
directorial debut in 2016 with Never Eat Alone. Her second feature
film, Maison du Bonheur, was a finalist for the Rogers Best Canadian
Film Award at the 2018 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. Her
third feature film, MS Slavic 7, which she co-directed with actress
Deragh Campbell, had its world premiere at the 69th Berlin
International Film Festival. She has won several accolades for her
work, including the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics
Association in 2018.After directing several short films since 2009,
Bohdanowicz made her feature film directorial debut in 2016 with Never
Eat Alone. The film follows a lonely grandmother as she tries to
reconnect with an ex-boyfriend from her youth. After premiering at the
Vancouver International Film Festival, it screened at the Buenos Aires
International Festival of Independent Cinema as part of a 2017
retrospective of Bohdanowicz's work.Her second feature film, Maison du
Bonheur, which profiles 77-year-old Juliane Sellam, a French
astrologer living in Montmartre, was a finalist for the Rogers Best
Canadian Film Award at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2018. The film premiered at the Buenos Aires International Festival of
Independent Cinema on April 23, 2017, and had a limited theatrical
release in the U.S. and Canada in 2018. The Globe and Mail's Barry
Hertz named the film one of his top 10 films of 2018, writing "A
supremely thoughtful and careful study of one elderly Parisian woman,
Maison du bonheur is as revealing as it is honest and sincere,"
adding, "This is a film to seek out and cherish.†The New York
Times' Glenn Kenny selected the film as a Critics' Pick and called it
"a profound delight."Her collaborations with actress Deragh Campbell
have screened at festivals around the world. Since 2016, Campbell has
portrayed the character of Audrey Benac in three of Bohdanowicz's
filmsâ€"Never Eat Alone, Veslemøy's Song (2018), and MS Slavic 7
(2019), the latter of which Campbell co-directed. Never Eat Alone
premiered in the Future//Present section of the 2016 Vancouver
International Film Festival; Veslemøy's Song, a short film, premiered
at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival and was named by the Toronto
International Film Festival to its annual year-end Canada's Top Ten
list; MS Slavic 7 had its world premiere at the 69th Berlin
International Film Festival and screened at the annual New
Directors/New Films Festival.
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