Sofia Bohdanowicz

Director
Canada

Sofia Bohdanowicz is a filmmaker from Toronto, she is the founder of the production company MAISON DU BONHEUR. She has had retrospectives of her work screened at BAFICI, The Seattle Northwest Film Forum, Cinemateca de Bogotà, DocLisboa and Festival du nouveau cinéma. In 2017, the Toronto Film Critics Association awarded her the Jay Scott Prize and in 2018 she was nominated for the Rogers Prize for Best Canadian Film for her documentary “Maison du bonheur”. Her third feature film, “MS Slavic 7”, premiered at the Berlinale and was featured at the Harvard Film Archive. She is in post-production on her fourth feature titled “A Woman Escapes”, a co-direction with filmmakers Burak Çevik and Blake Williams which won the Churubusco Prize at FICUNAM’s rough-cut workshop, CATAPULTA. She is currently in development on her fifth feature film titled “A Portrait” which won the Kodak and Silverway Award during FIDMarseille’s co-production lab.