SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ  is an award-winning 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, graced the cover of Cinema Scope (and the Argentinian newspaper Página/12), premiered at the Berlinale and was featured at the Harvard Film Archive. Bohdanowicz is an MFA graduate of York University’s Film Production program, an alumni of Berlinale Talents as well as the TIFF Talent Accelerator. 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.